subserviency

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A form of subservience — The state of being subservient.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nounsubserviency (usually uncountable, plural subserviencies)

plural subserviencies

  1. alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative form of subservience.

    At the same time, I would hint, that in all our proceedings the greatest caution and circumspection must be observed; and that every means employed should be in entire subserviency and conformity with the character and temper of her towards whom our views are directed.

    1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter IV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 47–48

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