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    subservience


    1. Everyone in the hall bowed low as a token of their respect and subservience


    2. Nonsense! (If, however, this an accurate characterization, just what does that tell us about Enlightenment philosophers?) His form of German idealism, involving as it must, complete subservience to the State, as manifest in the spirit of history, goes beyond the boundary of the civilized and prepares the way for Karl Marx


    3. Rand gloried over the mass of humanity starving until they, from her point of view, “learned their lesson” and sunk back into subservience, recognizing they existed only to serve elites


    4. Future generations of nonwhites were consigned to subservience and limited lives, more likely to die younger and live in greater poverty, their possibilities limited to manual labor or insulated communities


    5. Thinking nothing of the harm that was being created around them both men demeanour changed from one of subservience to one of terror as they prepared for their attack on the Chinese President


    6. I hate the excessive subservience I have found in Europa


    7. reliance was anathema to Catholic leaders, as their subservience could not be guaranteed


    8. of subservience for this one, he looked straight at Myserrah


    9. Subservience to the state is anything but free, but the word liberal has a positive connotation, which leads to the borrowing of the word and its dishonest application by those who would mislead unknowing but sincere people


    10. They have been beaten and driven into subservience by and to the Roman Empire

    11. “Where’s Pyx?” demanded Gaspar, reckoning that a bold show on his part might yield better results than snivelling subservience, though, if circumstances required it, he was quite prepared to adopt the latter


    12. Besides, if he would consent to do just one unnatural thing, the human mind would know of a certainty that it was in subservience to a truly divine mind


    13. Self-importance causes us to think we are the center of the universe, and we are therefore affronted at every turn that challenges our majesty, or perceived subservience


    14. There were a few perquisites to being a detective, but none were as rewarding as the power to immediately force individuals, many who were reluctant to stand against or were fearful of the police, into near subservience when confronted with the law


    15. “My, are you declaring your subservience to Unni?” she said


    16. frees the mind from its self-centered subservience to the material world


    17. She saw the immediate subservience in his eyes, knew that she could ask anything of him


    18. be one of silent subservience to the man because it was a female human being who committed the


    19. “As these autonomous killbots have become aware of their subservience to their


    20. Pine once more bowed his head in subservience and the Captain gave a sound of approval

    21. The Spanish people, goaded by the subservience ofCharles IV and his prime minister and


    22. They were beaten and brainwashed into such an abject level of whining, humble subservience that they came to actually love their masters instead of hate them


    23. This book is written so you the reader will become aware of how you have been used and poisoned and domesticated into subservience by these undead things


    24. ‘Father’ is a word, which carries with it, condescending connotations relating to subservience and obedience


    25. speak words which promised a degree of subservience to the earl much greater than they really intended


    26. Lydgate was no Puritan, but he did not care for play, and winning money at it had always seemed a meanness to him; besides, he had an ideal of life which made this subservience of conduct to the gaining of small sums thoroughly hateful to him


    27. There was hardly ever so much unanimity among them as in the opinion that Lydgate was an arrogant young fellow, and yet ready for the sake of ultimately predominating to show a crawling subservience to Bulstrode


    28. Here, as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he treated them with absentminded contempt


    29. At Anna Pavlovna’s they talked with perplexity of Bonaparte’s successes just as before and saw in them and in the subservience shown to him by the European sovereigns a malicious conspiracy, the sole object of which was to cause unpleasantness and anxiety to the court circle of which Anna Pavlovna was the representative


    30. Here, as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he treated them with absent-minded contempt

    31. At Anna Pávlovna’s they talked with perplexity of Bonaparte’s successes just as before and saw in them and in the subservience shown to him by the European sovereigns a malicious conspiracy, the sole object of which was to cause unpleasantness and anxiety to the court circle of which Anna Pávlovna was the representative


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    Synonyms for "subservience"

    obsequiousness servility subservience subservientness

    "subservience" definitions

    the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan


    in a subservient state


    abject or cringing submissiveness