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 "Lehr-Jungen" received me with a most respectful courtesy, in which, however, there was not the very slightest taint of subserviency or meanness.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
My father was at home in our town residence, surrounded by all the pomp of state and subserviency of well-trained menials.
From Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Though a Lutheran, he had been accused in 1854 of an excessive subserviency to the Roman Catholic Church.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various
This was not a pleasant state of mind; but it did not induce subserviency.
From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Maurice Francis Egan
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
