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Meanings of servile in English
Submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior.
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Usage of servile in English
1
The distinction between the free and the servile classes was temporarily abolished.
2
Already the whole mass of the servile crowded around the future monarch.
3
Possibly she considered it refreshing after the servile adulation of the M.P.s.
4
They have contrasted the free and noble with the mean and servile.
5
This is true only of the period preceding the second servile war.
6
In fact, I sometimes get a sort of servile enjoyment from it.
7
The spirit loses its hopefulness and independence and becomes servile and cringing.
8
All his success was due to his servile pliancy and base intrigues.
9
No one should be servile, no one should be domineering, Lent said.
10
They were servile followers, when not of the Greeks, of the Arabians.
11
Their black leathern integument is only the mask of their servile condition.
12
The servile soul will always be submissive and docile, greedy and stupid.
13
Mrs. Trotter received the offer with a dignity untainted by servile gratitude.
14
Now servile work is so called from servitude: and servitude is threefold.
15
Waller was probably as silent and servile as any of his neighbours.
16
Therefore it seems that servile fear is driven out when charity comes.
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Servile across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common