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subservience

[ US /səbˈsɝviəns/ ]
[ UK /sʌbsˈɜːvi‍əns/ ]
NOUN
  1. in a subservient state
  2. the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan
    all his actions were in subservience to the general plan
  3. abject or cringing submissiveness

How To Use subservience In A Sentence

  • So the vision such nihilists offered 20 th-century man was of a destiny no more elevated than a dog or cat, emancipated from morality other than subservience to the state.
  • all his actions were in subservience to the general plan
  • The falsificationist, by contrast, recognizes the limitation of induction and the subservience of observation to theory.
  • Marital instability, a growing number of female breadwinners, an increase in spinsterdom and domestic conflicts engendered by the humiliations and subservience of most men's work experience, influenced women to be more socially assertive! SPEECH BY MR C MABENA: WOMEN CELEBRATING THE DECADE OF FREEDOM ON THE PATH TO TOTAL EMANCIPATION
  • Clawing for tenure in a savage competition, the upwardly mobile learn subservience to superiors.
  • The attitude of "progressive" academics in this country toward the jihad against the West has become one of intellectual "dhimmitude" - meaning subservience to, and acceptance of, second-class status by non-Muslims in a Muslim-ruled social order. On Freedom of Speech and Openness to New Ideas on College Campuses
  • Here it was before him, a courtroom and a judge, bowed down in subservience by the machine to a dive-keeper who swung a string of votes. The Benefit of the Doubt
  • Marriage has no benefits for women, as long as men are governed by the idea of subservience as a supreme value. The Pleasure Seekers
  • The decommissioning demand is about showing subservience to unionism.
  • The thrust of both books is his failure to protect the national interests of Britain and his abject subservience to the United States.
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