Compliance (9)
I believe the answer is:
obedience
'compliance' is the definition.
(I know that obedience is a type of compliance)
This is all the clue.
(Other definitions for obedience that I've seen before include "Compliance with rules" , "The act of doing what one is told" , "Dutifulness" , "Doing what someone tells you" , "Submissiveness" .)