obeisance
പ്രണാമം
definition
noun
they paid obeisance to the prince
deferential respect.
example
they paid 'obeisance' to the Prince
Kirtans (devotional songs) rendered the air while the faithful paid 'obeisance' and listened to the kirtans and the Gurbani (Guru's voice).
In Bihar, for instance, during the Chhath festival, devotees are required to stand in waist-deep water while paying 'obeisance' to the Sun-god.
She offered it as 'obeisance' to the Lord Brihadeeswara, presiding deity of the temple.
The more timid paid 'obeisance' to the policies of the founders, but they also snippily noted that ‘their views were necessarily limited.’
Many pilgrims report seeing the doves-pair when they trek the arduous route to pay 'obeisance' before the ice-lingam (the phallic symbol of Shiva).
she made a deep 'obeisance'
If you are outside when it starts playing you stop everything and show 'obeisance' in your stillness.
The rhetoric of the khilat relationship - obligation, etiquette, 'obeisance' , summoned, commanded, respect, honour - is unique to Iranian-influenced cultures.
They also expected 'obeisance' , deference, and acquiescence to their methods - even groveling - from me.
It's interesting that he has drawn so much criticism for ascribing intrinsic value to this dialect without making the proper 'obeisance' to external circumstances that accompanied its development.
Kantha Rao said he gradually got over his fear of snakes and would get at least a couple of them home from snake charmers every ‘Subrahmanya Shashti’ to pay 'obeisance' to them.
We need to return to the diplomatic 'obeisance' to the United Nations.
That term cleverly covers all those who make no regular 'obeisance' but do have in their hearts a suspicion that there is something beyond all this and that it may be called God.
On the other side of the cross, the copper-haired, long-nosed St John stoops in sad 'obeisance' .
Emperors and officials of various dynasties including Emperor Qinshihuang in 210 BC made 'obeisance' and offered sacrifices at the Mausoleum of Yu the Great.
All 32 members in the troupe perform the Natakam as an 'obeisance' to Melattur Varadaraja Perumal.
I make 'obeisance' for you every day before the gods of this place.
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.
Temple bells chimed as men in flowing kurtas and multicoloured turbans and bejewelled women in vivid pinks and purples paid 'obeisance' to their guru, Baba Gulabgir.
The Bangkokians poured out on the roads to pay 'obeisance' in temples.
Infact Shiva's devotee, Sudheet approached Uma to pay his respectful 'obeisance' .
they paid 'obeisance' to the prince
she made a deep 'obeisance'
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' .
Parsing their complex performances, she convincingly reads them as both 'obeisant' and self-empowering.
Sir David Lock, the picture's central figure, sits puffing on a hookah while enjoying a naatch (dance show) and surrounded by 'obeisant' courtiers.
A ‘master of etiquette’ oversees the behavior of those who attend a traditional Taiwanese funeral, informing them as to what 'obeisances' to perform and when to perform them.
I offer repeated 'obeisances' unto Lord Krishna, who is the protector and well-wisher of the cows and the brahmanas.
Many stories have come down to us of her cruelty: for example, that she had two serfs sent to Siberia for having failed to make their 'obeisances' to her as she passed - because they did not see her.
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