obeyance

noun2

1. •
   obedience

   • Poor fellow! how happy would a companion make you, to whom you could relate your battles, bouts, and courtships; but mum is the order, and Jack is used to an implicit obeyance of head-quarter orders. — 1829
2. •
   (nonstandard) abeyance

   • The disfiguring wrinkles that make many necks unsightly may be kept in obeyance by massaging. — 1897