servility
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He says, "Servility depends upon reaction—and furnishes not only the willing supporters, but the fanatical advocates of the monarchy, the church, and the nobility."
From Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement by Walling, William English
Servility took the place of haughtiness and insolence.
From An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage
Servility, with its attendant hypocrisy and deceit, is conspicuously absent; and the general spirit of independence, if sometimes needlessly boorish in its manifestations, is at least sturdy and manly.
From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)
Our Posterity may be accustomd to bear the Yoke & being inured to Servility they may even bow the Shoulder to the Burden.
From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 3 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo
Had I suggested an Idea of the Vanity of the Ape the Tameness of the Ox or the stupid Servility of the Ass I might have been lyable to Censure.
From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 3 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo
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