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Meanings of subservience in English

Catalan
servilisme
Spanish
sometimiento

Abject or cringing submissiveness.

        servilisme

        In a subservient state.

              Usage of subservience in English
              1
              Economic backwardness was taken as holy simplicity; ignoble, craven subservience as piety.
              The Irish Times
              2
              He never had that sense of a family being socialized to subservience.
              The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama
              3
              The girl didn't accept, leaving Belinda in a position of pleading subservience.
              The pretender's crown
              4
              It is subservience to central command and control to a single leader.
              The Guardian
              5
              Stalin also despised the tsars' modish subservience to foreign influences and advisers.
              The Irish Times
              6
              Yet with that good deed comes a certain expectation of subservience.
              The Guardian
              7
              These colonies were evidently founded in subservience to the commerce of Great Britain.
              The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
              8
              She was full of merriment at the subservience of Vessons to the cows.
              Gone to Earth
              9
              Keep talking, Gentle thought, as it waxed poetic describing its powers of subservience.
              Imajica: Complete Edition
              10
              Writer accuses Nixon of unnecessary and dangerous subservience to Sen. Dirksen.
              The new yorker
              11
              She was trying to control you, to condition you into subservience.
              Ringworld
              12
              It instills domineering, despotic habits into the owners, cringing subservience into the owned.
              A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
              13
              It was a request for attention, and a show of subservience.
              Blood Noir
              14
              He professes subservience to the highest aims and intentions of the Unnamed God.
              Son of a witch: volume two in the wicked years
              15
              The subservience to books is as striking as that to teachers.
              How to Study and Teaching How to Study
              16
              This abrupt subservience of fate brought Raphael thoroughly to his senses.
              The Magic Skin
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              Translations for subservience
              Catalan
              servilisme
              Subservience through the time
              Subservience across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Common