Obeying vs Obey - What's the difference?
obeying | obey |
To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
To do as one is told.
(obsolete) To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iv:
As verbs the difference between obeying and obey
is that obeying is while obey is to do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.obey
English
Verb
(en verb)- They were all taught by Triton, to obay / To the long raynes, at her commaundement [...].