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Meanings of servility in English

Catalan
servilisme
Spanish
sometimiento

Abject or cringing submissiveness.

        servilisme
        Spanish
        servilismo

        Meekly obedience.

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              Usage of servility in English
              1
              The status of servility can never again be tolerated on American soil.
              State of the Union Addresses
              2
              Rage, cunning, insolence, servility, and hypocrisy were vilely mixed in the minion.
              The English Governess at the Siamese Court / Being Recollections...
              3
              A translation may show its servility; but its elegance is less attainable.
              Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
              4
              But this is due to the condition of servility, not to womanhood.
              The Man-Made World; Or, Our Androcentric Culture
              5
              So says the official, returning to his august master with cringing servility.
              Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
              6
              But one felt that this servility resulted from something potent and secret.
              The Sleuth of St. James's Square
              7
              These ladies my admiral uncle greeted with something even approaching to servility.
              Stephen Archer, and Other Tales
              8
              Yes, flattery, and servility to rank, and a desire to possess it.
              The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
              9
              She thought her husband exaggerated his services, carrying them even to servility.
              The Mystery of Orcival
              10
              I've done everything with blind servility since I came into this house.
              Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
              11
              She talks of his 'love' for her; it should be his 'servility.'
              Dawn
              12
              Did ever situation more strongly conduce to moral servility and mental dependence!
              Josephus
              13
              Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation!
              A Tale of Two Cities
              14
              He keeps his servility sweet by preserving it in the salt of vilification.
              The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays / 1909
              15
              He preferred suffering in freedom to all the happiness of a comfortable servility.
              The Sea-Wolf
              16
              Nor were they corrupted by the servility of the surrounding ear.
              One of Our Conquerors — Volume 3
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              servilisme
              Servility through the time
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