subserviency
- a variation of subservience.
- a word derived from subservient.
Example Sentences
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The spirit of subserviency to the Old World also died, and the people who had rescued the land made up their minds not only to own it, but to control it.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green
A sense of superiority appeared to mingle with his fawning subserviency, such as might mark the carriage of Luke in Massinger's play.
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
The Ministers trusted for success to the power of the Crown, the subserviency of the judges, and the wide-spread panic among the higher classes.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
Those whose subserviency to anything, or any one, prevents this, are not freemen!
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry
The school attended by Uriah Heep and his father before him was described as an attack on the practice of instilling into the minds of poor children the consciousness of subserviency.
From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)
