Meanings of childlike docility in English

She obeyed with a childlike docility that touched him to the heart, and he turned quickly to his wife.

Holy Scripture appears to settle this question very satisfactorily, by requiring childlike docility as a preparation for the Spirit's working.

The mysteries of were accepted with childlike docility, and the Church had felt little call to organize, to systematize, or to explain.

But the man who should receive with childlike docility every assertion and dogma uttered by another man no wiser than himself would become contemptible.

Their aim was to reduce the fierce Red men to a state of childlike docility to priests, and they discouraged all colonization in their neighbourhood.