flunkeyismn.
/ˈflʌŋkɪɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈfləŋkiˌɪzəm/ The quality characteristic of a flunkey; the manners, speech, etc. of a flunkey.
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the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [noun]
fawninga1350
submission?a1439
overlowness1496
servility1573
servilenessa1594
obsequency1595
obsequiousness1613
cringing1617
slavishnessa1620
vernility1623
servulating1637
suppleness1638
sneakinga1657
subserviency1669
fawningness1672
subservience1680
cringingness1695
truckling1820
obsequience1830
flunkeyism1831
servilism1831
spanielship1832
toadyism1840
flunkeydom1850
oleaginousness1853
vassalism1854
toadying1863
grovel1892
obsequity1892
crawlsomeness1900
serfishness1906
oleosity?1920
ass-kissing1936
1831 Fraser's Mag. 4 312 A sinking journal, which its own inconsistencies and flunkism had irrevocably damned.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. vi. 46 We, for our share, will put away all Flunkeyism..from us.
1886 Law Times 80 297/2 Flunkeyism and toadyism in legal proceedings have not been diminishing of late years.
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