Submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior.
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It is the second of our vassal states to ask for help.
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How long do you suppose we could escape becoming a vassal power?
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Each principal vassal was a kind of sovereign, within his particular demesnes.
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The Cid then became a vassal of the Moorish king of Saragossa.
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The vassal of Otho had reduced the successor of Otho to vassalage.
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The distinction between the free and the servile classes was temporarily abolished.
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Already the whole mass of the servile crowded around the future monarch.
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Possibly she considered it refreshing after the servile adulation of the M.P.s.
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They have contrasted the free and noble with the mean and servile.
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This is true only of the period preceding the second servile war.
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In fact, I sometimes get a sort of servile enjoyment from it.
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The spirit loses its hopefulness and independence and becomes servile and cringing.
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All his success was due to his servile pliancy and base intrigues.
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No one should be servile, no one should be domineering, Lent said.
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They were servile followers, when not of the Greeks, of the Arabians.
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Their black leathern integument is only the mask of their servile condition.
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The servile soul will always be submissive and docile, greedy and stupid.
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Mrs. Trotter received the offer with a dignity untainted by servile gratitude.
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Now servile work is so called from servitude: and servitude is threefold.
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Waller was probably as silent and servile as any of his neighbours.
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Therefore it seems that servile fear is driven out when charity comes.
