Servility
[sɜː'vɪlɪtɪ]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being servile; servileness.
Editor: Patrick
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Slavery, bondage, dependence.[2]. Slavishness, baseness, meanness, abjectness, abjection, obsequiousness, fawning, sycophancy.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Slavery, bondage, slavishness, baseness, meanness, fawning, sycophancy,[SeeADVANTAGE]
Typist: Marietta
Examples
- Otherwise, his seeming attention, his docility, his memorizings and reproductions, will partake of intellectual servility. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- There is a mixture of servility and self-importance in his letter, which promises well. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- In his gaze on her bright face there was no servility, hardly homage; but there were interest and affection, heightened by another feeling. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Her servility and fulsome compliments when Emmy was in prosperity were not more to that lady's liking. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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