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servility

/sur-vil, -vahyl/US // ˈsɜr vɪl, -vaɪl //UK // (ˈsɜːvaɪl) //

奴性,仆人精神,公务员,勤劳

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounslavery

Examples

  • 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.