obeisance

How To Use obeisance In A Sentence

• In Bihar, for instance, during the Chhath festival, devotees are required to stand in waist-deep water while paying obeisance to the Sun-god.
• The infant Isabella from her coign to do obeisance toward the duffgerent, as first futherer with drawn brand. Finnegans Wake
• I offer repeated obeisances unto Lord Krishna, who is the protector and well-wisher of the cows and the brahmanas.
• He became visibly annoyed when we offered him what was less obeisance than he expected and demanded and soon walked off with flaming cheeks, leaving us to the ministrations of his staff.
• I'm afraid the day of the teacher, the priest and the doctor being the three important people to whom you pay obeisance is not around any longer, certainly not in Europe.
• Therefore he appears as the Deity to accept the worship and obeisances of His devotees.
• But those New Zealanders not utterly transfixed by the imperial glare of London or Washington have sensed that our national interests lie in a wider kind of collective security than is offered by simple colonial obeisance.
• In the beginning of that book he has offered his obeisances to his different gurus, and it is to be noted that he has adored them all equally.
• She offered it as obeisance to the Lord Brihadeeswara, presiding deity of the temple.
• Kirtans (devotional songs) rendered the air while the faithful paid obeisance and listened to the kirtans and the Gurbani (Guru's voice).