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Meanings of subservience in английском

каталонский
servilisme
испанский
sometimiento

Abject or cringing submissiveness.

        servilisme

        In a subservient state.

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              Examples for "servility"
              Examples for "servility"
              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
              1
              Not through the mere obsequiousness of every one concerned, including the Senate.
              Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul
              2
              The traitors could easily be distinguished by their insolence disguised as obsequiousness.
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 / A Magazine...
              3
              But, for all his obsequiousness, the admirable Harrow was a persistent diplomat.
              Destiny
              4
              Startled into obsequiousness, Bodza produced ink and paper from some secret receptacle.
              The Day of Wrath
              5
              Look at the obsequiousness of journalists at the White House correspondents dinner.
              The Guardian
              Usage of subservience in английском
              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
              каталонский
              servilisme
              Subservience through the time
              Subservience across language varieties
              United Kingdom
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              United States of America
              Common