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Chris -- 2018-04-11
If you obey laws you are certainly law-abiding so this eggcornish variant does make sense:
Gangs and criminals DON”T OBEY LAWS, ban only worked on law obeding citizens. Now they can arm and defend themselves. ...
www.topix.com/forum/source/alamogordo-daily-news/.../p2 – Cached
And criminals aren’t afraid of the law,because they have more rights than your law obeding citizens. The whole world is in one big mess. ...
www.sharon-furner.fineartamerica.com/sh … p?...56941
I am an upstanding law obeding citizen and do everything by the rules just like my football club. ...
www.pieandbovril.com/forum/index.php?ac … ost&pid…
And, you’re a law-obiding saint, so it shouldn’t affect you anyway, ... Yes, I’m so law-obiding. I’m not trying to be a saint or say I’m …
www.gamespot.com/psp/puzzle/.../show_ms … opic_id…
While on the topic of obedience, there are some hundreds of ‘in obeyance’ ghits, a few of which substitute for the acorn abeyance:
non-bank financial intermediaries be held in obeyance until such time when there exists more empirical support for the necessity of such controls. ...
www.jstor.org/stable/2977489
...but much usage seems legitimate to me, even though the word has no dictionary entries, for obeisance often contains an unwanted degree of self-abasement. The following would look distinctly odd with obeisance in place of obeyance:
He’s looking for consistency in obeyance of traffic laws whether on streets or bike paths, not complaining about bypassing traffic. ...
dcist.com/2006/08/you_just_cant_e.php
The basis for the charge was a traffic cop’s claim that Moss failed to slow down his sports car in obeyance of the signal of the traffic cop. ...
connecticut.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=1363&tid…sid…
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Frankly incredible, but the evidence is there. Wow.
How about “obediant” as a noun, so that the plural is “obediants”.
Now AAAALLLLLLLLLLLL of the naysayers, and blind obediants who did’nt want to admitt that Israel breaks U.N. laws.
(http://insidethemiddleeast.blogs.cnn.co … estinians/)
Here “obediants” are things, on a par with instincts:
his is a Bio-mechanical Organism (BMO) a living machine with the instincts and obediants of a german shepard.
(http://blood-asp0123.deviantart.com/art … e-58722313)
Finally, “law biting” as in those who accept the bit in their mouths:
Prison reform
As to our burdensome penitentiary system where we purposely segregate unwanted behavior in the attempt to maintain our sudo-utopian society of law biting individuals.
(http://opengov.ideascale.com/a/dtd/4172-4049)
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Your german shepard example is suspect of being a spelling error for “obedienceâ€; i.e. you and I as readers tuned in to the -ants/-ence differants may be getting that the obediants must be plural things, but the person writing very likely is not.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2009-12-21 05:01:38)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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And there’s no shortage of “law-biding”.
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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