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slavishness|ˈsleɪvɪʃnɪs|
Also 7 slauishnes, slavishnesse, Sc. slawischnes.
[f. slavish a.1]
1. Slavish quality or characteristics; servility.
1622M. Fotherby Atheom. i. 120 His willingnesse to serue such base things, is the great brand of his slauishnes. a1683Oldham Wks. (1686) 10 To scare The senseless rout to slavishness and fear. a1768T. Secker Wks. (1771) V. 140 Making a Language absurd, and imprinting a Character of Slavishness upon it. 1830Sir J. Mackintosh Progr. Eth. Philos. Wks. 1846 I. 185 Blackstone,..whose writings are not exempt from the charge of slavishness. 1878Bayne Purit. Rev. ii. 45 This will now strike our readers as a doctrine of utter slavishness.
†2. A state of slavery; bondage. Obs.
1622M. Fotherby Atheom. i. 113 Thus detaining them in more than Egyptian slauishnes. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iv. xiv. 111 These bemoaned the slavishnesse of these poore servants.
†3. Oppression, tyranny. Obs.
1684E. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Eng. i. 48 For putting any to the rack..it is by the English believed to savour too much of slavishness. |