subservience
noun
the fact of serving in a subordinate position or role.
subserviency
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a variation of
subservience.
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a word derived from
subservient.
Example Sentences
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The substitution of independence for subserviency, of co-operation for formal, responsive obedience, and of reverence for law for fear of law are the most important development in child training.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
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 James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
He advocates the distribution of the public lands money for the building of canals and railroads without borrowing money, and openly declares his subserviency in being governed by the public will on all questions.
From Lincoln, the Politician by T. Aaron Levy
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 Henry Lunettes
The moment that you show subserviency you admit superiority.
From Bridge Axioms and Laws by J.B. (Joseph Bowne) Elwell
