Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
subserviency .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
subservient .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun in a subservient state
- noun abject or cringing submissiveness
- noun the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan
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Examples
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Here it was before him, a courtroom and a judge, bowed down in subservience by the machine to a dive-keeper who swung a string of votes.
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Leaving out the difference in subservience to authority between Europeans and Americans, I wrote this in the comments:
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It holds that pure and honest legislators cannot spring from filth and trickery, and in subservience to this view, discountenances the unfair conduction of general elections, and favors the extension, by law, of the "Australian ballot" to the primary election of all political parties.
The Principles of the Republican Party: A Rare Unpublished Jack London Essay 2010
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However, these skills were also a way to imbue children with Western culture, and at least one scholar argues that domestic education for Indian girls was proof of an "underlying federal agenda" intended to indoctrinate "Indian girls in subservience and submission to authority."
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006
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Blind fealty and total subservience is not expected nor wanted.
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Here it was before him, a courtroom and a judge, bowed down in subservience by the machine to a dive-keeper who swung a string of votes.
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Here it was before him, a courtroom and a judged bowed down in subservience by the machine to a divekeeper who swung a string of votes.
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That, if it be God's will, we may do him more service and may get to be fitter and riper for heaven, is an end for which we may wish the prolonging of life, in subservience to our chief end; but, otherwise, what can we propose to ourselves in desiring to tarry here?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Obama also doesn’t bow in subservience to Babtists like he does to Saudi Kings.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Yet More Assaults on Speech 2009
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Marriage has no benefits for women, as long as men are governed by the idea of subservience as a supreme value.
The Pleasure Seekers Melanie George 2003
mialuthien commented on the word subservience
subservience – abject or cringing submissiveness; obsequiousness, servility
July 14, 2008
100000232338334 commented on the word subservience
"You hit him, because you are proud, and his subservience disgusted and excited you." -Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas
December 11, 2010