subserviency
- a variation of subservience.
- a word derived from subservient.
Example Sentences
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Wright, Marcy, and their successors in New York politics, almost up to the present day, certainly carried cringing subserviency to the South to a pitch that was fairly sublime.
From Thomas Hart Benton by Roosevelt, Theodore
In this way the original peculiarities of the different nationalities are wrought into political subserviency, and employed as an element of power in securing the balance of power.
From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey
But nature is not easily starved into subserviency, and upon the first opportunity takes vengeance for former neglect by more violent and unreasoning possession.
From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Caldwell, Willie Walker
But the story is worth mentioning, as the subserviency of the police to the King of the Thieves was characteristic of public justice under Ferdinand II.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
They breathe, in many cases, a spirit of fear, of abject subserviency, of hopeless pessimism.
From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix
