Usage examples for obeisance:

• Musa stepped over to the pedestal, dropped a coin into the bowl, and walked toward the rear of the temple, making proper obeisance to the huge statue. "The Players" – Everett B. Cole

• He walked into the room, not with a dictated obeisance but with a hurrying step, a half pleased, yet a half frightened look, an instantaneous survey of every person present; not as demanding " what they thought of him," but expressing almost as plainly as in direct words, " what he thought of them." "Nature and Art" – Mrs. Inchbald

• I greeted him with an obeisance and explained my errand. "Vendetta A Story of One Forgotten" – Marie Corelli

• Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore: Not the least obeisance made he; not an instant stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door,- Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more. "The American Union Speaker" – John D. Philbrick