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Webster 1913 Edition


Servility

Ser-vil′i-ty

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
servilité
.]
The quality or state of being servile; servileness.
To be a queen in bondage is more vile
Than is a slave in base
servility
.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Servility

SERVIL'ITY

,
1. Slavery; the condition of a slave or bondman.
To be a queen in bondage is more vile
Than is a slave in base servility. Shak.
2. Mean submission; baseness; slavishness.
3. Mean obsequiousness; slavish deference; as the common servility to custom; to copy manners or opinions with servility.

Definition 2024


servility

servility

English

Noun

servility (plural servilities)

  1. The condition of being servile.

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