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单词 subservience
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Definition of subservience in English:

subservience

(also subserviency)
noun səbˈsəːvɪənssəbˈsərviəns
mass noun
  • 1Willingness 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. 1.1 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. 1.1 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.
 
 
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