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subserviency|səbˈsɜːvɪənsɪ|
[f. next: see -ency.]
1. = subservience 1.
1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 277 All things being..by him given out to the world, in subserviency to the ends of his design. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ ii. iv. §5 This Institution of them in the Schools of the Prophets was of great subserviency. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. iii. §9 The Beauty of Dress depends on its subserviency to certain Ends and Uses. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. i. §3. 10 When we contemplate..the manifest Adaptations and Subserviencies of all these Things to each other. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 479 The subserviency of our planet to the support of terrestrial as well as aquatic species. 1862Hook Lives Abps. II. 124 Persons, whom he intended to bring to a subserviency to his objects.
2. = subservience 2. Now rare exc. as implied in 3.
1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 15 It is reasonable the worser should be in subserviency to the better. a1665J. Goodwin Being filled with the Sp. (1867) 147 That subserviency which..seems to be attributed to the Holy Ghost. 1723Swift Argts. agst. Bps. Wks. 1761 III. 263 Lords and squires—who..murmur at the payment of rent—as a subserviency they were not born to. 1896Duke of Argyll Philos. Belief 8 The subserviency of structure to function, and the priority in time of structural growth.
3. = subservience 3.
a1768Secker Serm. (1770) III. viii. 178 The obstructing of useful Measures by Opposition, forwarding bad ones by Subserviency. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 57 note, Any stricture on the score of subserviency in style or composition. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxxix, That cringing subserviency which is one of the most baleful effects of slavery. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th Cent. I. i. 8 In no country have State trials been conducted with..a more scandalous subserviency to the Crown. |