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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- water-repellency
- water-repellent
- water-repelling
- water-resistance
- water-resistant
- water resource
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- water-retentive
- water retting
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- water right
- water-rocket
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- watersail
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- waterscape
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- water-screw
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