Obeisance

It was a knee-jerk design modification made in obeisance to the myth that Americans hate hatchbacks. ❋ Post (2010)

March 26th, 2010 at 1: 59 pm tombaker says: obeisance is freedom! ❋ Unknown (2010)

I bow in obeisance: They implemented the classic game Defender … in a favicon. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Consistent with your view that Congressmen pass laws in obeisance with their oath, I assume that those same Congressman did the same when passing broad Commerce Clause legislation. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And the feeling for those he loved survived them, and it is monstrous to represent its unspoken and controlled/[Page xxxiv]/expression in obeisance and gesture as a sign of "agonising remorse." ❋ Unknown (1893)

Thou knowest with what joy I roamed over thy confines, and beheld the universal beauty that then was spread around; how tenderly I whispered through thy flowers, how joyfully I carried up their fragrant odours as a thank-offering to heaven; how merrily I sported on the hills, or taught the branches of thy lofty trees to bow, as in obeisance to Him who made them! ❋ Unknown (1857)

The kek would sweep inwards as the van roared along the lane; bowing in obeisance. ❋ Peter Ashley (2008)

The business recalls the obeisance to certain Italian gentlemen once required of American presidential candidates. ❋ Simon Jenkins (2010)

The business recalls the obeisance to certain Italian gentlemen once required of American presidential candidates, Jenkins wrote, adding: ❋ By JEFFREY MARCUS (2010)

And no American head of state should show "obeisance" to another head of state. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

With acts of this kind of obeisance, any hope the 110th congress will address the key issues people voted for and demand faded like a late autumn sunset. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But they saw that he wasn’t twitching, that he had drawn his knees beneath him and had his forehead pressed to the ground as if bowing down in obeisance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The fancy invoked by his words was so vivid, that for a moment I thought I should, and I never shall forget the thrill which seized me as I leaned forward and peered for one minute into the hall and saw there his solitary figure pausing on the lower step of the stairs, with that bend of the body which bespeaks an obeisance which is half homage and half an invitation. ❋ Anna Katharine Green (1890)

But this recovering of something lost within the Gate comes with a price, and while I'm puzzled at the translator's choice of rendering what is usually translated as "obeisance" into "(…) has to be paid", it makes sense, eventually. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Christian of wealth wished to build a church, and last week he was proceeding to do so, when the heathen, instigated by the district mandarin, seized upon him and four other Christians, and when he would neither say the word nor make the obeisance which is regarded as equivalent to denying Christ, they wrapped him in cotton wadding soaked in oil, tied him to a cross, and burned him, no extremity of torture availing to shake his constancy. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

In the place from which they came a Christian of wealth wished to build a church, and last week he was proceeding to do so, when the heathen, instigated by the district mandarin, seized upon him and four other Christians, and when he would neither say the word nor make the obeisance which is regarded as equivalent to denying Christ, they wrapped him in cotton wadding soaked in oil, tied him to a cross, and burned him, no extremity of torture availing to shake his constancy. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

she [made] a [deep] obeisance ❋ Leslichow (2022)