Servility

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Servility \Ser*vil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. servilit['e].]
     The quality or state of being servile; servileness.
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           To be a queen in bondage is more vile
           Than is a slave in base servility.       --Shak.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  servility
       n : abject or cringing submissiveness [syn: {obsequiousness}, {subservience}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  123 Moby Thesaurus words for "servility":
     abjection, abjectness, absolutism, acquiescence, agreeability,
     agreeableness, allegiance, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, back seat,
     baseness, bend, bending the knee, biddability, bob, bond service,
     bondage, bow, bowing and scraping, brown-nosing, captivity,
     compliableness, compliance, conformity, control, cringing, curtsy,
     debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, dipping the colors,
     disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, docility, domination,
     ductility, duteousness, dutifulness, enslavement, enthrallment,
     facility, faith, fawning, fealty, feudalism, feudality, flattery,
     flexibility, genuflection, helotism, helotry, homage, humbleness,
     humility, inclination, indentureship, inferiority, juniority,
     kneeling, kowtow, lowliness, loyalty, making a leg, malleability,
     meanness, minority, moldability, nod, obedience, obediency,
     obeisance, obsequiousness, observance, peonage, plasticity,
     pliability, pliancy, presenting arms, prostration, restraint,
     reverence, salaam, salutation, salute, scrape, second fiddle,
     second string, secondariness, serfdom, serfhood, service,
     servitium, servitude, slavery, slavishness, sliminess,
     standing at attention, subjection, subjugation, submission,
     submissiveness, subordinacy, subordination, subservience,
     suit and service, suit service, sycophancy, sycophantism,
     third string, thrall, thralldom, toadying, toadyism, tractability,
     truckling, tyranny, unctuousness, vassalage, vileness, villenage,
     wheedling, willingness, yieldingness, yoke