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US
/səbˈsɝviəns/
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[ UK /sʌbsˈɜːviəns/ ]
[ UK /sʌbsˈɜːviəns/ ]
NOUN
- in a subservient state
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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 - abject or cringing submissiveness
How To Use subservience In A Sentence
- Bowing your head to a monarch is an act of subservience. Should you be bothered that Pres. Obama bowed to the Japanese emperor? « Dating Jesus
- Talk of drawing moral battle lines rather than building bridges would suggest that subservience rather than respect, as your political masters crave, is the objective. Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- They refuse to live in subservience to governmental elites.
- Conversely, to be in a relationship with a passionate and self-assured Latino doesn't imply subservience to the dominant macho.
- He is obsessed with religion, with strict adherence to ceremony and unquestioning subservience to the teachings of the church.
- It is too much associated with a truckling, subservience to English people and English ideas and the silly swagger of the hop-o'-my-thumb junior officer. Education and Empire Unity
- Subservience is also shown because other prisoners see it as a mask, necessary for survival for weaker or less competent prisoners.
- Here it was before him, a courtroom and a judged bowed down in subservience by the machine to a divekeeper who swung a string of votes. The Benefit of the Doubt
- His aesthetic theories, which naturally dominate his writing, run counter to this idea of the subservience of art to nature.
- They must exchange subservience to the pressures of the id for acting in accordance with the ego.