单词 | servilism |
释义 | servilismn. 1. a. Advocacy or support for servile attitudes to (esp. political) authority. Chiefly as a derogatory term used by political liberals for their opponents. Now chiefly as a contextual use of sense 1b.Originally spec. with reference to the monarchist party in early 19th-century Spain. Cf. servile n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > the right > attitudes of servilism1821 conservatism1832 conservativeness1832 conservativism1834 hunkerism1845 rightism1934 right-wingism1951 1821 Charleston (S. Carolina) Courier 31 Jan. A crisis produced by His Majesty having lent too easy an ear to the suggestions of Ecclesiastical Servilism. 1823 Morning Chron. 11 Apr. Every conversion from Servilism to Liberalism among the Protestants on the Continent, has been at the same time a conversion to Catholicism. 1960 G. Reisman tr. L. von Mises Epistemological Probl. Econ. (2003) 41 Liberalism has no thought of denying the existence of servilism and its worldview. 2011 German Stud. Rev. 34 71 Heine enthusiastically supported Menzel's comparison between the dyads liberalism/servilism, future/past, Protestantism/Catholicism. b. More generally: servile behaviour or attitudes; excessive deference, obsequiousness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [noun] fawninga1350 submission?a1439 overlowness1496 servility1573 servilenessa1594 obsequency1595 obsequiousness1613 cringing1617 slavishnessa1620 vernility1623 servulating1637 suppleness1638 sneakinga1657 subserviency1669 fawningness1672 subservience1680 cringingness1695 truckling1820 obsequience1830 flunkeyism1831 servilism1831 spanielship1832 toadyism1840 flunkeydom1850 oleaginousness1853 vassalism1854 toadying1863 grovel1892 obsequity1892 crawlsomeness1900 serfishness1906 oleosity?1920 ass-kissing1936 1831 Westm. Rev. July 93 But we are not aware that servilism, and sycophancy,..ought to be considered as essential recommendations in an historian. 1875 J. R. Beard in tr. E. U. Bouzique Hist. Christianity III. 322 The clergy, its sole instructor, bring them up in religious servilism, and consequently in political servilism. 1993 Sunday Times (Nexis) 24 Oct. [His] servilism might just have merited him to clear after the royal horses. 2015 I. Mészáros Necessity of Social Control ix. 178 Perhaps the most disastrous aspect of the ‘New Labour’ government is the total servilism..with which it participated..in genocidal American military adventures. 2. The condition or status of being (literally or effectively) a slave; servitude. Also: the social system based on the existence of slaves. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > system or institution slavery1728 servilism1857 chattelism1865 neoslavery1958 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > other types of civilizations or cultures > principles of civicism1874 servilism1880 1857 H. R. Helper Impending Crisis of South xi. 411 Our remarks find melancholy confirmation in the abject servilism in which multitudes of the non-slave-holding whites of the South are involved. 1880 Congregationalist (U.S.) 17 Nov. The remnants of domination and of servilism [in the southern United States] will soon take themselves hence. 1916 Garment Worker 23 June 5/1 Their ‘owners’..who—while the real producers howled, bore the yoke of servilism and suffered starvation—drove through the brilliant streets of the city of Mexico in luxurious automobiles. 2000 Utopian Stud. 11 183 Conditions of hard labor, scarcity, ignorance..and widespread poverty; conditions of injustice where human dignity and rights are violated, and later still conditions of servilism and slavery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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