subservientlyadv.
/səbˈsəːvɪəntli/, U.S. /səbˈsərviəntli/ In a subservient manner.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [adverb] > in auxiliary manner
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [adverb] > in a subservient manner
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1646 T. Gataker Shadowes without Substance 56 All which indeed is to be understood not principally..; but mediately, subserviently, organically, instrumentally.
1650 E. Ellis Sudden & Cloudy Messenger Ep. Ded. sig. A2 If you, or others, shall act subserviently, you may flourish.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 221 The worst of all Evils made..to contribute subserviently to the Good and Perfection of the Whole.
1759 Ann. Reg. 1758 11/2 Our navy..was only to be cultivated and employed subserviently to the more comprehensive continental system.
1795 Ann. Reg., Hist. 18 They acted subserviently to all its designs.
1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery p. xv Discovery was an object, therefore, that could only be pursued subserviently to this.
1885 Manch. Examiner 26 Aug. 5/4 Unless it [sc. the Government] complies subserviently with the Nationalist demands.
1933 P. Grainger Let. 26 Apr. in All-round Man (1994) 123 What he calls his ‘Australian democraticness’ makes him unwilling to see a hundred orchestral musicians accompany subserviently a single soloist.
1997 G. Hosking Russia (1998) iii. vi. 278 His friends..were shocked to see their usually radical comrade crawling subserviently to the regime of ‘Nicholas the Stick’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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