Modifies a noun

• fear: C.S. Lewis wrote " Servile fear is, to be sure, the lowest form of religion.

• condition: Even today, according to the UN, 200 million people work in servile conditions throughout the globe.

• submission: Here is an excellent example of servile submission from someone who really did blindly travel about the Highlands.

• concubinage: The crowded harim, with its sanction of servile concubinage, was also an evil school for the rising generation.

• mentality: The modern laborers may be free, but they may also still have something of the servile mentality.

• dependency: Servile dependency was one of the proud Greeks ' worst fears.

Modifying Another Word

• not: Tho he is not servile or mercenary, he is the victim of self-will.

• even: He wrote a flattering, even servile letter to Sartre praising the latter as the only thinker capable of understanding him.

Used with adjective complement

• become: If service is not taken up in the spirit of sonship, I am sure it becomes servile.