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Meanings of servility in English
Catalan
servilisme Spanish
sometimiento Spanish
servilismo Synonyms
Examples for "subservience"
Examples for "subservience"
1
Economic backwardness was taken as holy simplicity; ignoble, craven subservience as piety.
2
He never had that sense of a family being socialized to subservience.
3
The girl didn't accept, leaving Belinda in a position of pleading subservience.
4
It is subservience to central command and control to a single leader.
5
Stalin also despised the tsars' modish subservience to foreign influences and advisers.
1
Not through the mere obsequiousness of every one concerned, including the Senate.
2
The traitors could easily be distinguished by their insolence disguised as obsequiousness.
3
But, for all his obsequiousness, the admirable Harrow was a persistent diplomat.
4
Startled into obsequiousness, Bodza produced ink and paper from some secret receptacle.
5
Look at the obsequiousness of journalists at the White House correspondents dinner.
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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