Definitions for subservience
sub·servience

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. subserviencenoun

   the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan

   "all his actions were in subservience to the general plan"

2. subservience, subservientnessnoun

   in a subservient state

3. obsequiousness, servility, subserviencenoun

   abject or cringing submissiveness

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. subserviencenoun

   The state of being subservient.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Subservience, Subserviencynoun

   Instrumental fitness or use.

   Etymology: from subserve.

   Wicked spirits may by their cunning, carry farther in a seeming confederacy or subserviency to the designs of a good angel. Dryden.

   We cannot look upon the body, wherein appears so much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions, any otherwise than as the effect of contrivance. Richard Bentley.

   There is an immediate and agil subservience of the spirits to the empire of the soul. Matthew Hale, Originat. of Mankind.

   There is a regular subordination and subserviency among all the parts to beneficial ends. George Cheyne, Philosophical Principles.

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1. Subservience

   Subservience is an upcoming American sci-fi thriller film directed by S.K. Dale from a screenplay by Will Honley and April Maguire. It stars Megan Fox as a domestic gynoid who develops self-awareness and becomes hostile, and Michele Morrone as its purchaser.

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1. Subserviencenoun

   alt. of Subserviency

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1. Subservience

   Subservience is a 2007 film directed by Patrick Bouchard.

Matched Categories

1. • Condition
   • Submissiveness
   • Subordinateness

How to pronounce subservience?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say subservience in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of subservience in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of subservience in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of subservience in a Sentence

1. Michael Shoebridge:

   For all the years of engagement with Australia, Beijing doesn't understand the place or the people, bullying Australians achieves the opposite of acquiescence and subservience. And Beijing's coercion of Australia, now using our trade as a weapon, is helping collapse hard-won soft power gains Beijing had made here and internationally in the last 20 years.

2. Harriet Martineau:

   For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

3. Hermann Hesse:

   The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=subservience
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Subservience
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=subservience
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subservience
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subservience
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=subservience