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单词 subservience
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subservience

/səbˈsəːvɪəns /
(also subserviency)
noun [mass noun]
1Willingness to obey others unquestioningly: he demonstrated his complete subservience to his masters blind subservience to authority...
  • Clawing for tenure in a savage competition, the upwardly mobile learn subservience to superiors.
  • They refuse to live in subservience to governmental elites.
  • The decommissioning demand is about showing subservience to unionism.
1.1The condition of being less important than something else: is it a case of the subservience of the divine to political beliefs?...
  • He's constantly demanding female subservience in a mad attempt at securing his masculinity.
  • We have much to learn from our medieval forebears, but we cannot turn to them for an ideal or example of scholarly humility or subservience.
  • His aesthetic theories, which naturally dominate his writing, run counter to this idea of the subservience of art to nature.
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