subservience
subservience is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley. There is a regular subordination and subserviency among all the parts to beneficial ends. Cheyne.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accoucheur
- accoucheuse
- affect
- agency
- aid
- along
- applicability
- aptitude
- aptness
- assistance
- bend
- bent
- bias
- bid
- calculated
- carry
- cast
- conatus
- conduce
- conducive
- conduciveness
- contribute
- crook
- dint
- direction
- dispose
- drift
- expedient
- fair
- for
- foul
- grain
- gravitate
- hand
- handmaid
- hereby
- hook
- humor
- idiocrasy
- idiosyncrasy
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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