Subservience
noun
The act of obeying someone or doing what they want without any resistance.
She had a deep sense of loyalty and subservience towards her parents.
Often appears as...
- unquestioning subservience
- implied subservience
noun
The state of being less important or lower in rank; inferiority.
The subservience of his role did not allow him to make decisions.
Often appears as...
- equal subservience
- relative subservience
noun
The act of obeying someone or doing what they want without any resistance.
She had a deep sense of loyalty and subservience towards her parents.
Often appears as...
- unquestioning subservience
- implied subservience
noun
The state of being less important or lower in rank; inferiority.
The subservience of his role did not allow him to make decisions.
Often appears as...
- equal subservience
- relative subservience
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Not Always Negative
Subservience isn't always bad; it can show respect in certain cultures or contexts.
In a traditional ceremony, her subservience to the elders was appreciated.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Dynamics
Subservience often reflects a power difference where one person feels lower.
The employee's subservience to the boss made dialogue difficult.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Servitude
Don't confuse subservience with servitude, which is a condition of being a slave.
Despite her subservience, she was an employee, not a servant.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Always Negative
Subservience isn't always bad; it can show respect in certain cultures or contexts.
In a traditional ceremony, her subservience to the elders was appreciated.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Dynamics
Subservience often reflects a power difference where one person feels lower.
The employee's subservience to the boss made dialogue difficult.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Servitude
Don't confuse subservience with servitude, which is a condition of being a slave.
Despite her subservience, she was an employee, not a servant.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Always Negative
Subservience isn't always bad; it can show respect in certain cultures or contexts.
In a traditional ceremony, her subservience to the elders was appreciated.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Dynamics
Subservience often reflects a power difference where one person feels lower.
The employee's subservience to the boss made dialogue difficult.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Servitude
Don't confuse subservience with servitude, which is a condition of being a slave.
Despite her subservience, she was an employee, not a servant.
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Why we must stop dancing...
or I'll go to a music venue, or, really, anywhere that plays music in the background, and I'll find myself loving the rhythms and the melodies and the beats And then I take a second to listen to the lyrics, lyrics that, for example, place us in a position of subservience
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The Aztecs: From Empire...
cortes shows up how what's the reaction at first is he welcomed are people afraid this was a fluid situation in which different city-states were either subservient to others or trying to overthrow the subservience and
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Why we must stop dancing...
or I'll go to a music venue, or, really, anywhere that plays music in the background, and I'll find myself loving the rhythms and the melodies and the beats And then I take a second to listen to the lyrics, lyrics that, for example, place us in a position of subservience
Video examples
The Aztecs: From Empire...
cortes shows up how what's the reaction at first is he welcomed are people afraid this was a fluid situation in which different city-states were either subservient to others or trying to overthrow the subservience and
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Margo Jefferson
American Critic
Negroland is my name for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty. Children in Negroland were warned that few Negroes enjoyed privilege or plenty and that most whites would be glad to see them returned to indigence, deference and subservience.
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Harriet Martineau
English Writer
For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
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Thomas Jefferson
American President
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Larry Norman
American Musician
We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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Margo Jefferson
American Critic
Negroland is my name for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty. Children in Negroland were warned that few Negroes enjoyed privilege or plenty and that most whites would be glad to see them returned to indigence, deference and subservience.
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Harriet Martineau
English Writer
For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
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Thomas Jefferson
American President
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Quote examples
Larry Norman
American Musician
We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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