See Also: subservience(dictionary)

subservience (iou)



subservience noun. L17.
[from SUBSERVIENT: see -ENCE.]
The condition or quality of serving as a means to an end. L17.
The condition of being subordinate or subject to another. Now usu. spec., servile behaviour or attitude, submissiveness, obsequiousness. E18.
Coleridge The subservience..of..animal courage to intellect. M. Lane She was..forced into a position of childlike subservience.
Also subserviency noun M17.