biddableness

“So Théo, with the biddableness that was an integral and to her rather annoying quality of his character, had said no more, and returned to the other guests.”

The Halo

“6 And perhaps this was a dangerous game to play, gambling on the biddableness of their fideles in time of trouble, but the prize was arguably worth the gamble, because the prize was military domination of an ever-increasing area and a considerable increase of surplus as the newly-protected areas around the new castles filled out and become productive.”

A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe