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subservience Definition

sub·ser·vi·ence (səb sʉrvē əns)

noun

  1. the state or quality of being subservient
  2. 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.