Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic) Obedient, compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.

Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey all instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.

* 1927 , (Thornton Wilder), (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) , p. 20

Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language. It was intended as an obsequious flattery of the Condesa, and was untrue.

(obsolete) Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.

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… the survivor bound
In filial obligation for some term
To do obsequious sorrow…

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Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament
Th’ untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.

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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-17, volume=408, issue=8849, magazine=(The Economist)

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