Definition of “obeisance”

Before them, the Griffin was bent into a profound obeisance.

During the past two decades, obeisance to the cult of personality has become virtually the only permitted political activity.

Putrefying, stinking, his wheelchair folded against the wall, the dead man paying obeisance to an empty red velvet throne.

Syal's office is a virtual durbar for his executives, field agents, and just about anybody who pays obeisance to him.

THE BROADCAST Last year's annual obeisance to the Hollywood fantasy machine was an eye-glazing four hours, 16 minutes long.

The wind came in light gusts, -rippling the surface of the water, the reeds and rushes bending in obeisance.

Well might Macmillan christen his trip to Bermuda to do obeisance for Britain's sins `Operation Canossa '.

What bound people together was obeisance to the one in command.

Yet their blinkered obeisance to the "yoof" market flies in the face of the facts.