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  2. Obedience - Wikipedia

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    Obedience, in human behavior, is a form of "social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure". [1] Obedience is generally distinguished from compliance, which some authors define as behavior influenced by peers while others use it as a more general term for positive responses to another individual's request, [2] and from conformity, which is ...

  3. Malicious compliance - Wikipedia

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    In U.S. law, this practice has been theorized as a form of uncivil obedience. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Malicious compliance was common in the Soviet Union 's command economy ; examples are used in the studies of behavior, management, and economics to hypothetically show differences between the Soviet command economy and a free market .

  4. Holy obedience - Wikipedia

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    Christian obedience is a free choice to surrender one's will to God, [6] and an act of homage. [3]Amongst the moral virtues obedience enjoys a primacy of honour. The reason is that the greater or lesser excellence of a moral virtue is determined by the greater or lesser value of the object which it qualifies one to put aside in order to give oneself to God.

  5. Obedience (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Obedience is a person's tendency to yield to instructions from an authority figure. Obedience may also refer to: Obedience, an educational film about the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures; Obedience, a common name for the plant Maranta arundinacea; Obedience, a common name for the plant Physostegia virginiana

  6. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Dictionary and thesaurus. Wikipedia languages. This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.

  7. Discipline - Wikipedia

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    Discipline is the self-control that is gained by requiring that rules or orders be obeyed, and the ability to keep working at something that is difficult. [1] Disciplinarians believe that such self-control is of the utmost importance and enforce a set of rules that aim to develop such behavior.

  8. Ulu'l-amr - Wikipedia

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    Obedience to political authorities in Islam refers to Surah Nisa verse 59, known as the 'verse of obedience' (Arabic: آية الطاعة), which calls for obedience to Allah and the Islamic Prophet Muhammad as well as to the ulu'l-amr or incumbent authorities (rulers and ulama), which is obedience to valid Islamic injunctions.

  9. Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Langenscheidt dictionaries in various languages A multi-volume Latin dictionary by Egidio Forcellini Dictionary definition entries. A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions ...