Definition of subservience in English:
subservience
(also subserviency)
noun səbˈsəːvɪənssəbˈsərviəns
mass noun1Willingness to obey others unquestioningly.
he demonstrated his complete subservience to his masters
blind subservience to authority
Example sentencesExamples
- The decommissioning demand is about showing subservience to unionism.
- He had promised subservience to Alexander.
- He is obsessed with religion, with strict adherence to ceremony and unquestioning subservience to the teachings of the church.
- They refuse to live in subservience to governmental elites.
- Clawing for tenure in a savage competition, the upwardly mobile learn subservience to superiors.
- 1.1 The condition of being less important than something else.
is it a case of the subservience of the divine to political beliefs?
Example sentencesExamples
- The subserviency of means to an end implies the presence of intelligence.
- He's constantly demanding female subservience in a mad attempt at securing his masculinity.
- His aesthetic theories, which naturally dominate his writing, run counter to this idea of the subservience of art to nature.
- We have much to learn from our medieval forebears, but we cannot turn to them for an ideal or example of scholarly humility or subservience.
- From all accounts, in his case, humility does not mean subservience.
Definition of subservience in US English:
subservience
(also subserviency)
nounsəbˈsərvēənssəbˈsərviəns
1Willingness to obey others unquestioningly.
he demonstrated his complete subservience to his masters
blind subservience to authority
Example sentencesExamples
- He had promised subservience to Alexander.
- He is obsessed with religion, with strict adherence to ceremony and unquestioning subservience to the teachings of the church.
- They refuse to live in subservience to governmental elites.
- The decommissioning demand is about showing subservience to unionism.
- Clawing for tenure in a savage competition, the upwardly mobile learn subservience to superiors.
- 1.1 The condition of being less important than something else.
is it a case of the subservience of the divine to political beliefs?
Example sentencesExamples
- We have much to learn from our medieval forebears, but we cannot turn to them for an ideal or example of scholarly humility or subservience.
- His aesthetic theories, which naturally dominate his writing, run counter to this idea of the subservience of art to nature.
- From all accounts, in his case, humility does not mean subservience.
- The subserviency of means to an end implies the presence of intelligence.
- He's constantly demanding female subservience in a mad attempt at securing his masculinity.