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Definition of Servility
1. Noun. Abject or cringing submissiveness.
Generic synonyms: Submissiveness
Specialized synonyms: Sycophancy
Derivative terms: Obsequious, Obsequious, Servile, Subservient
Definition of Servility
1. n. The quality or state of being servile; servileness.
Definition of Servility
1. Noun. The condition of being servile. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Servility
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Servility
Literary usage of Servility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from by Richard Chenevix Trench (1865)
"servility. The subjective abjectness and baseness of spirit of one who is a slave,
... Such servility as the Jews endured under the Greeks and ..."
2. The Englishwoman in Russia: Impressions of the Society and Manners of the by A lady (1855)
"Government employés^ their servility—Baseness, and its fruits—Duty of the ...
There are, as far as we could learn, few exceptions to this servility, ..."
3. The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1900)
"OF ILLIBERALITY OR servility Complete. ... or servility, is too great a contempt
of glory, pro- | ceeding from the like desire to spare expence. ..."
4. Political Crime by Louis Proal (1898)
"... political opponents—servility of judges to governments—servility in the old
English courts of justice —Juries and justice—French magistrates under the ..."
5. Political Crime by Louis Proal (1898)
"... political opponents—servility of judges to governments—servility in the old
English courts of justice —Juries and justice—French magistrates under the ..."
6. Southern History of the War: The First Year of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1864)
"Its Dulness and servility.—Mr. Foote and the Cabinet.— Two Popular Themes of
Confidence.—Party Contention in the North.—Successes of the Democrats there. ..."
7. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... but its especial merit is the fidelity with which the writer reproduces the
grand Elizabethan manner with no approach to servility of imitation. ..."
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