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passive obedience

noun

unquestioning obedience to authority

the surrender of a person's will to another person

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Example sentences from the Web for passive obedience

But among the refugees in England, the passive-obedience doctrine imbibed in the mother-country did not endure.

The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century |Charles Bastide