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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SERVILITY

Ser *vil "i *ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. servilité. ]

 

Defn: The quality or state of being servile; servileness. To be a queen in bondage is more vile Than is a slave in base servility. Shak.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

servility

ser vil i ty |sərˈvilitē sɜːrˈvɪləti | ▶noun an excessive willingness to serve or please others: a classic example of media servility.

 

Oxford Dictionary

servility

ser |vil ¦ity |səːˈvɪlɪti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] an excessive willingness to serve or please others: a classic example of media servility.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

servility

servility noun Lovat was used to servility —he couldn't remember when anyone had last disagreed with him: obsequiousness, sycophancy, excessive deference, subservience, submissiveness, fawning, toadyism, toadying, grovelling, cringing, unctuousness, oiliness, abjectness, abjection, cravenness, slavishness, humility, self-abasement; informal smarminess, sliminess, bootlicking; N. Amer. informal apple-polishing; Brit. vulgar slang arse-licking, bum-sucking; N. Amer. vulgar slang ass-kissing. ANTONYMS bossiness, assertiveness.

 

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