subservience
IPA: sʌbsˈɝviʌns
noun
- The state of being subservient.
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Examples of "subservience" in Sentences
- His subservience shows that he is obedient.
- I think it is about subservience and power.
- There was an element of subservience, obedience.
- There was an element of subservience and obedience.
- It certainly shows his subservience to the community.
- His subservience to Her is like that of an obedient daughter.
- Blind fealty and total subservience is not expected nor wanted.
- A situation of dissimulation and subservience of the poor is created.
- Obama also doesn’t bow in subservience to Babtists like he does to Saudi Kings.
- Marriage has no benefits for women, as long as men are governed by the idea of subservience as a supreme value.
- Leaving out the difference in subservience to authority between Europeans and Americans, I wrote this in the comments:
- Here it was before him, a courtroom and a judged bowed down in subservience by the machine to a divekeeper who swung a string of votes.
- Here it was before him, a courtroom and a judge, bowed down in subservience by the machine to a dive-keeper who swung a string of votes.
- That, if it be God's will, we may do him more service and may get to be fitter and riper for heaven, is an end for which we may wish the prolonging of life, in subservience to our chief end; but, otherwise, what can we propose to ourselves in desiring to tarry here?
- However, these skills were also a way to imbue children with Western culture, and at least one scholar argues that domestic education for Indian girls was proof of an "underlying federal agenda" intended to indoctrinate "Indian girls in subservience and submission to authority."
- It holds that pure and honest legislators cannot spring from filth and trickery, and in subservience to this view, discountenances the unfair conduction of general elections, and favors the extension, by law, of the "Australian ballot" to the primary election of all political parties.