Obedience vs. Sacrifice

Obediencenoun

The quality of being obedient.

Obediencenoun

The collective body of persons subject to any particular authority.

Obediencenoun

A written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him.

Obediencenoun

Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.

Obediencenoun

The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.

Obediencenoun

Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.

Obediencenoun

A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who submit to the authority of the pope.

Obediencenoun

the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person

Obediencenoun

the trait of being willing to obey

Obediencenoun

behavior intended to please your parents;

Sacrificeverb

(ambitransitive) To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.

Sacrificeverb

(transitive) To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility of gaining something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.

Sacrificeverb

(transitive) To trade (a value of higher worth) for something of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more, such as an ally or business relationship, or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money.

Sacrificeverb

To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.

Sacrificeverb

To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be caught or fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.

Sacrificeverb

To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.

Sacrificeverb

To destroy; to kill.

Sacrificenoun

The offering of anything to a god; a consecratory rite.

Sacrificenoun

The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; the devotion of something desirable to something higher, or to a calling deemed more pressing.

Sacrificenoun

Something sacrificed.

Sacrificenoun

(baseball) A play in which the batter is intentionally out so that one or more runners can advance around the bases.

Sacrificenoun

A loss of profit.

Sacrificenoun

A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

Sacrificenoun

The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

Sacrificenoun

Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation.

Sacrificenoun

Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest.

Sacrificenoun

A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

Sacrificeverb

To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep.

Sacrificeverb

Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering.

Sacrificeverb

To destroy; to kill.

Sacrificeverb

To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

Sacrificeverb

To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.

Sacrificenoun

the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.

Sacrificenoun

personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)

Sacrificenoun

a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value;

Sacrificenoun

the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity

Sacrificenoun

(sacrifice) an out that advances the base runners

Sacrificeverb

endure the loss of;

Sacrificeverb

kill or destroy;

Sacrificeverb

sell at a loss

Sacrificeverb

make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals

Sacrifice

Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship. Evidence of ritual animal sacrifice has been seen at least since ancient Hebrew and Greeks, and possibly existed before that.