subservience
subservience
Definition
sub·ser·vi·ence (səb sʉr′vē əns)
noun
- the state or quality of being subservient
- subservient behavior or manner; obsequiousness; servility
subservience
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- woman: Kate's final speech on the subservience of women became in fact her tour de force.
Possessives
- woman: Social and political institutions may foster women's subservience and violence against them.
Converse of object
- maintain: Labor, Miliband showed, maintained an unremitting subservience to crown, imperialism and property.
- ensure: The lack of powers to raise income ensures subservience to the dictates of the Minister of Health.
Adjective modifier
- complete: Our leaders are not asked to justify their complete subservience to American interests.
- political: Then perhaps the arts can enjoy a more independent role, and questions of political subservience will fade away.
- slavish: The Blair government's slavish subservience to Bush is causing it major problems at home.
- total: That the Saudi regime refuses to use oil to exert pressure on the US reveals its total subservience to Washington.
- sacred: Shillony develops this theme of " sacred subservience " in twenty-eight concise chapters grouped into nine sections.
- empty: Another suffocating Labor majority meant creative unrest not empty subservience.
Browse dictionary entries near subservience
- subserve
- subsere
- subsequently
- subsequent
- subsequence
- subsection
- subscription rights
- subscription
- subscript
- subscriber line charge
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- subset
- subshrub
- subside
- subsidiary
- subsidize
- subsidy
- subsist
- subsistence
- subsoil
