servility 的定义
- slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- characteristic of, proper to, or customary for slaves; abject: servile obedience.
- yielding slavishly; truckling.
- extremely imitative, especially in the arts; lacking in originality.
- being in slavery; oppressed.
- of, relating to, or involving slaves or servants.
- of or relating to a condition of servitude or property ownership in which a person is held in slavery or partially enslaved: medieval rebellions against servile laws.
servility 近义词
slavery
更多servility例句
- Why should we acquiesce in the preparation of our spirits for the worst kind of servility—slavery to fate?
- There is, at least, no country in Europe in which servility has not invented and vanity received genealogies yet more chimerical.
- There is little difficulty in summing up their tenets: it is "Reverence, without servility."
- Parliament tried respectful remonstrances in vain; the cardinal thought himself safe in the servility of the nation.
- Resistance to power has shut the door of the House of Commons to one man; obsequiousness and servility, to none.
- A constitutional habit of servility to his creditor when present before him signalized Algernon.