| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Great respect or high public esteem accorded as a right or as due: homage, honor, obeisance. See RESPECT. 2. The quality or state of willingly carrying out the wishes of others: acquiescence, amenability, amenableness, compliance, compliancy, obedience, submission, submissiveness, tractability, tractableness. See RESIST.
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