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slavishly, adv.|ˈsleɪvɪʃlɪ|
Also 6–7 slauishly, 7 slaueishly, slauishlie.
[f. slavish a.1 + -ly2.]
1. In a servile or slavish manner.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Verniliter, lewdly:..slauishly. 1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 23 Most slauishly thou kissest and embracest them. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. xi, It is a wonder to see, how slavishly these kind of men subject themselves. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 362 Some..content themselves to live slavishly..for a Morsel of Bread. 1727Gay Fables xii. 21 She never slavishly submits, She'll have her will, or have her fits. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. Pref. p. xvi, Not slavishly addicted to any new system. 1840Thackeray Catherine xi, He was slavishly gentle to Catherine. 1884Contemp. Rev. Oct. 502 A nation..slavishly devoted to foreign models.
Comb.1821Examiner 659/1 A very slavishly-inclined talker of Kings.
†2. Oppressively, tyrannically. Obs.
1621in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1906) I. 349 To this missery hath tirannie inthrald us all and slaveishly caused us to stoope to the demaund of even base infidells. 1632Lithgow Trav. i. 26 The women of the better sort are slauishly infringed from honest and lawfull liberty. |