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  1. subserviencynoun

    The state of being subservient; subservience.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  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.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Subserviencynoun

    the quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of subserviency in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of subserviency in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9


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