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1643 T. Hill Militant Church 6 Upon this divine Project, the Attributes of God, the Offices of Christ, the Influences of the holy Spirit, lay out themselves. All other things stand or fall with subserviency hereunto.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. iv. §5 This Institution of them in the Schools of the Prophets was of great subserviency.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iii. ix. 178 The Beauty of Dress depends on its subserviency to certain Ends and Uses.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man ii. i. §3. 10 When we contemplate..the manifest Adaptations and Subserviencies of all these Things to each other.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 479 The subserviency of our planet to the support of terrestrial as well as aquatic species.

1862 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops Canterbury II. 124 Persons, whom he intended to bring to a subserviency to his objects.

1911 Drama Feb. 151 In the drama..are involved a number of arts in various combination and mutual subserviency to a single purpose.

1962 D. A. Puzzo Spain & Great Powers ii. 47 The Spanish ruling class had not lost faith in itself. It was not ready to seek its salvation in subserviency to the aims and purposes of foreign powers.

1995 J. S. Baxter For God so Loved (new ed.) i. ii. 24 The omniscient God must have foreknown the sin of His creatures and have predetermined its subserviency to the further reach of His purpose.

1646 J. Saltmarsh Divine Right of Presbyterie 9 In that subserviency and power of compulsion, they demand of the Magistrate, and Princes of the world.

a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) vii. 158 That subserviency which..seems to be attributed to the Holy Ghost.

1723 J. Swift Some Arguments against Power of Bishops 17 Lords and..'Squires, who..murmur at the Payment of Rent, as a Subserviency they were not born to.

1790 R. Gray Key Old Test. & Apocrypha 213 The origin of the scribes is uncertain; they were probably first employed in subserviency to the prophets.

1896 Duke of Argyll Philos. Belief 8 The subserviency of structure to function, and the priority in time of structural growth.

1920 E. Grant Orient in Bible Times xii. 228 The general condition of Judah was that of subserviency to Israel.

2001 A. Bourdain Typhoid Mary 59 That so many of them [sc. Irish women migrating to America] became domestic servants who lived in the homes they served..reinforced this trend away from continued subserviency to a husband.

1669 J. Tombes Emmanuel xii. 117 Now to Rule at his Fathers command had noted his obedience, and subserviency, not his excellency.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. x. 53 Mr. Allworthy was not one of those generous Persons, who are ready most bountifully to bestow Meat, Drink, and Lodging..for which they expect no other Return but Entertainment, Instruction, Flattery, and Subserviency . View more context for this quotation

a1768 T. Secker Serm. Several Subj. (1770) III. viii. 178 The obstructing of useful Measures by Opposition, forwarding bad ones by Subserviency.

1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 57 (note) Any stricture on the score of subserviency in style or composition.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxix. 263 That cringing subserviency which is one of the most baleful effects of slavery.

1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. I. i. 8 In no country have State trials been conducted with..a more scandalous subserviency to the Crown.

1908 New Outlook 17 Oct. 323/2 He attacked President Roosevelt for favoritism to capitalists, and the Republican party for subserviency to capitalists.

1991 J. Roach Secondary Educ. in Eng. i. i. 12 Fawcett attacked the subserviency built into the existing system.