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Meanings of servility in English
Catalan
servilisme Spanish
sometimiento Spanish
servilismo Synonyms
Examples for "submissiveness"
Examples for "submissiveness"
1
The more submissiveness and fear I show, the more he loathes me.
2
The pain, shame, and constant terror had reduced her to primal submissiveness.
3
One clause in the treaty crowned the royal submissiveness towards the powerful vassal.
4
You can have no idea of the point to which he carried submissiveness.
5
She cried 'Oh!' and pretended tearful submissiveness, but without shedding tears.
Usage of servility in English
1
The status of servility can never again be tolerated on American soil.
2
Rage, cunning, insolence, servility, and hypocrisy were vilely mixed in the minion.
3
A translation may show its servility; but its elegance is less attainable.
4
But this is due to the condition of servility, not to womanhood.
5
So says the official, returning to his august master with cringing servility.
6
But one felt that this servility resulted from something potent and secret.
7
These ladies my admiral uncle greeted with something even approaching to servility.
8
Yes, flattery, and servility to rank, and a desire to possess it.
9
She thought her husband exaggerated his services, carrying them even to servility.
10
I've done everything with blind servility since I came into this house.
11
She talks of his 'love' for her; it should be his 'servility.'
12
Did ever situation more strongly conduce to moral servility and mental dependence!
13
Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation!
14
He keeps his servility sweet by preserving it in the salt of vilification.
15
He preferred suffering in freedom to all the happiness of a comfortable servility.
16
Nor were they corrupted by the servility of the surrounding ear.
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Servility across language varieties
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