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subservience
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subservience
(encz) | subservience,podřízenost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Subservience
(gcide) | Subservience \Sub*serv"i*ence\, Subserviency \Sub*serv"i*en*cy\,
n.
The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental
fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's
purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility.
[1913 Webster]
The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and
subserviency to infinite functions. --Bentley.
[1913 Webster]
There is a regular subordination and subserviency among
all the parts to beneficial ends. --Cheyne.
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subservience
(wn) | subservience
n 1: the condition of being something that is useful in reaching
an end or carrying out a plan; "all his actions were in
subservience to the general plan"
2: in a subservient state [syn: subservience,
subservientness]
3: abject or cringing submissiveness [syn: obsequiousness,
servility, subservience] |
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Subservience
(gcide) | Subservience \Sub*serv"i*ence\, Subserviency \Sub*serv"i*en*cy\,
n.
The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental
fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's
purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility.
[1913 Webster]
The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and
subserviency to infinite functions. --Bentley.
[1913 Webster]
There is a regular subordination and subserviency among
all the parts to beneficial ends. --Cheyne.
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