Adjective : slavish subjection. ,He was slavish in his obedience. ,slavish fears. ,a slavish reproduction. From Dictionary.com.
‘One might even say, the slave of anti-slavishness,’. From Wordnik.com. [Dream tales and prose poems] Reference
But in return she exacted a great deal from him, sometimes even slavishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Possessed] Reference
It is not the slavishness of inferiors, for the poorest exhibit it towards each other. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference
For to know that father or mother has sinned doth turn the stoutest heart to slavishness. From Wordnik.com. [Hippolytus] Reference
He spoke of Scott's slavishness to men of rank, but said it did not interfere with his genius. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Furthermore, flattery begets harmony; but only by means of the vile offence of slavishness or treachery. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethics] Reference
Where she runs into material she's disinterested by, she makes snide remarks about Brody's slavishness to his subject. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
There is one big issue, however, in which the renunciation of “slavishness” could turn out to mean something: Iran. From Wordnik.com. [What will Britain's government do about 'slavish' relations with U.S.?] Reference
But you protect his individuality by frowning on slavishness and on anyone who doesn't keep a strictly private side to his life. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
Russia's slavishness and torpor are taken for granted: there is a matter-of-fact mention of the knout, and later of a dowry of fifty serfs. From Wordnik.com. [A Doomed Young Man] Reference
"Resist short-lived fads or slavishness to fashion," she writes, "unless you can afford to discard your entire wardrobe and buy a new one each season.". From Wordnik.com. [What To Wear?Ask Edith] Reference
It's this kind of silly slavishness to every dip and rise of daily polling that makes this country's political journalism so maddeningly superficial and infantile. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Maintains Three-Point Lead In National Polls] Reference
Mouse Print is here to call these greedy stock-holder-centric corporations on there slavishness to the short-term, and their aparatchik “spokespersons”/apologists on their BS. From Wordnik.com. [Mouse Print»Blog Archive » Tropicana: Please Don’t Squeeze the Customer] Reference
Lembcke's version is faithful to the point of slavishness. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway] Reference
'One might even say, the slave of anti-slavishness,' I suggested. From Wordnik.com. [Dream Tales and Prose Poems] Reference
The desperation to learn can lead to slavishness and/or deception. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Was it mere slavishness of mind on my part not to overrule her timid will?. From Wordnik.com. [The Thing from the Lake] Reference
He would think it was mere slavishness; and if he liked it, he would be a slave. From Wordnik.com. [All Things Considered] Reference
The select few have taken refuge in it to escape the slavishness of the mediocre. From Wordnik.com. [Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House] Reference
To try to give our infatuation a higher place than Truth is a sign of inherent slavishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Home and the World] Reference
All fear and slavishness and rebellion, all that was bleak and nineteenth century, far behind. From Wordnik.com. [Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel] Reference
We accept this amiable slavishness, and praise a woman for it: we call this pretty treachery truth. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
Assumedly, these ideological double entendres are responsible for the slavishness of Weezer's fanbase. From Wordnik.com. [Tucson Weekly] Reference
This slavishness in the name of serving abstract moral imperatives may be the white man's specific particular ugliness. From Wordnik.com. [1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)] Reference
The twin curses of democracy, slavishness and jealousy, are curiously blended in their views of social and political life. From Wordnik.com. [British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals] Reference
If political liberty were given the Asiatic people, when they had just learned to obey, slavishness would never have become their fault. From Wordnik.com. [The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891] Reference
Self-interest is the seed, of which meanness is the full-grown plant, and of which social constraint and slavishness are the final fruits. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Ethics] Reference
What a proper fund of slavishness is there in the composition of mankind, that histories like these should be found to interest and awe them. From Wordnik.com. [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference
What a proper fund of slavishness is there in the composition of mankind, that histories like these, should be found to interest and awe them. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1] Reference
Still, it is not unruliness, this protest of a young and independent spirit against the slavishness now and then upheld in certain forms of literature. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Accident and Other Stories] Reference
I deserve neither one nor the other; but such is the nature of the people of this age - they cannot reject without hatred nor accept without slavishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Dreams] Reference
But the world of fact, after all, is not good; and, in submitting our judgment to it, there is an element of slavishness from which our thoughts must be purged. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays] Reference
For it is the creature's characteristic to be lastingly awake, in her moments of utmost slavishness most keenly awake to the chances of the snaring of the stronger. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
Full surely the professor would not be deceived, and a lover with a heart to reach to her and read her could never be hoodwinked by so palpable a piece of slavishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Comedians — Complete] Reference
As far as this question is concerned, then, the slavishness of the Asiatic people, instead of being against their adaptability to constitutional government, is for it. From Wordnik.com. [The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891] Reference
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