But do not confound it with servility, which is a mean thing; it is the badge of a slave or a sycophant. From Wordnik.com. [Scraps of African Methodist Episcopal History] Reference
In Wales the Labour Party had kept the working class in a state of 'servility' for two generations. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
This is the kind of servility the BSNL employees are talking about. From Wordnik.com. [ Analysis] Reference
But when a government official abuses their power because a citizen exhibited insufficient servility, that is not the citizen’s fault. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Gates Charges Dropped:] Reference
He borrows from his station a condescension in everything to his superiors, yet unattended by that mean servility which is called good behaviour in such persons. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Andrews, Volume 2] Reference
The young wife was touched by this humble servility. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The servility removed, in what are the two dissimilar?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
The status of servility can never again be tolerated on. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Rome grinds into brute servility all save a favored few. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
The creature was servile -- with almost a groveling servility. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Business is service, not servility, and courtesy works both ways. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
It was the sixth government he had served and all with servility. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Don't mistake coolness and poise for submissiveness and servility. From Wordnik.com. [Dollars and Sense] Reference
Let us not, therefore, crouch with timid servility to great names. From Wordnik.com. [On Calvinism] Reference
But one felt that this servility resulted from something potent and secret. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
The man came, with all the cringing servility of a born native, and bowed low. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship] Reference
Sal Karone remained in the background, but there was no servility in his manner. From Wordnik.com. [Cubs of the Wolf] Reference
Proud men never unbend until their supremacy is acknowledged through your servility. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
His companion smiled even while, with the trained servility of the retainer, he doffed his cap. From Wordnik.com. [Their Mariposa Legend; a romance of Santa Catalina] Reference
Why had the Ids failed to lift themselves out of servility to a state of independence, he wondered?. From Wordnik.com. [Cubs of the Wolf] Reference
The Cardinal of Lorraine, in particular, distinguished himself by the servility which he displayed. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Because labor is honorable in the former, and dishonorable, because of its servility, in the latter. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
If there is a word in the English language that means treachery, servility, and cowardice, it is that word. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
His terms, too, applied to honor and that abominable politeness in which there is servility and insolence!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Every virtue becomes a vice if it is carried too far, and frank rudeness is better than servility or hypocrisy. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
A false patriotism, an inherited acceptance of servility and obedience, makes the foreigners meek, sheep-like men. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
But this would not be a real bond of union between us, but merely an exhibition of servility and fawning hypocrisy. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Their cringing respect to her had always been amusing in its servility; but now she was as dust beneath their feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
The Hindoos and the Bengal Mussulmans are characterized by cringing servility, open insolence, or rude indifference. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
It has made a merit of weakness and servility, and given the name of virtue to such imbecilities as meekness and self-sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
Let there be neither servility, nor sullen pride, nor susceptibility, nor too much compliance; nothing but good natural affection. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
There was none of that servility which Mr. Carlyle has attempted to dignify with the name of "hero-worship," for the rich man was rather. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
Their patient endurance of accumulated hardships did not arise from a slavish servility or from insensibility to their rights and comforts. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Arrangement and discipline with him take the place of everything else, and they inculcate in him the spirit of dependence and of servility. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
And so one can see plainly that all such servility and drawing back on their part is a lowering their sails, not to experience or virtue or age, but to wealth and fame. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
The judges expected from Socrates that abject submission, that meanness of behaviour, and that servility of defence which they were accustomed to receive from ordinary criminals. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.