Noun
Obedience.
A manifestation of obedience; an expression of difference or respect; homage; a bow; a courtesy.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. William Butler Yeats
This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart. John Aubrey
Here in America, we do not pay obeisance to the powerful - in fact, we question the powerful most ardently - to do so is our birthright and a requirement of our citizenship - and so, we know well that no matter how powerful, no president will ever have dominion over objective reality. Jeff Flake
This Earl of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travel [for] 7 years. On his return the Queen welcomed him home, and said, 'My Lord, I had forgot the Fart. Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path. Salman Rushdie
Obeisance to the self that is a reflection of eternal reality. Kashmir Proverb