subservience
noun
the fact of serving in a subordinate position or role.
subserviency
-
a variation of
subservience.
-
a word derived from
subservient.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
But for any such entire and mechanical subserviency of the operations of the one principle to the dictates of the other, there is not the slightest foundation in reality.
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt
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 Henry B. Stanton
He was unpopular with them, however, owing to his subserviency to the Jesuits, and resigned the agency in 1607 owing to the remonstrances of the English arch-priest George Birkhead.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
The world is all subserviency to the doctor when there is an epidemic abroad, and 'takes it out' in insult when the weather is fine and the season salubrious.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Edmund Downey
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 William Davy Watson
