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单词 servilism
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servilismn.

Brit. /ˈsəːvᵻlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈsərvəˌlɪzəm/, /ˈsərˌvaɪˌlɪzəm/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a Spanish lexical item. Etymons: servile adj., -ism suffix.
Etymology: < servile adj. + -ism suffix, originally (in sense 1a) after Spanish servilismo (1814 or earlier).Compare French servilisme (1794), Portuguese servilismo (1836).
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.
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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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