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Definition of Slavish
1. Adjective. Blindly imitative. "A slavish copy of the original"
2. Adjective. Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant. "She has become submissive and subservient"
Similar to: Servile
Derivative terms: Submissiveness, Submit, Subservience, Subservientness
Definition of Slavish
1. a. Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great.
Definition of Slavish
1. Adjective. in the manner of a slave; abject ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slavish
1. pertaining to or characteristic of a slave [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slavish
Literary usage of Slavish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1800)
"All the world over before in most slavish subjection, (saith m Eusebius,) in
divers forms, Christ's time, he freely domineered, and held the souls of men ..."
2. Ireland Past and Present by Augustus J. Thébaud, John Habberton (1878)
"But, with regard to the fact itself—the slavish disposition of Englishmen at that
time under kingly and queenly rule—no doubt can possibly exist. ..."
3. Select Discourses by John Smith, Simon Patrick, John Worthington (1821)
"A slavish spirit in religion may be very prodigal in such kind of serving God as
doth not ... The different effects of love and slavish fear in the truly, ..."
4. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1870)
"slavish terror takes its rise under a superior unlimited in power, capricious in
conduct, or extreme in severity. The possibility of some great infliction ..."
5. A Brief History of Forestry in Europe, the United States and Other Countries by Bernhard Eduard Fernow (1911)
"TURKISH AND slavish TERRITORIES. The Turks for centuries warred with, had under
vassalage or otherwise controlled, and misruled all the slavish States, ..."
6. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1908)
"... who thought themselves under a slavish Oppression (the common Cant Term) the
Knight haranguing a few of the People openly this Evening at Penrose's Door ..."