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vassal

noun as in servant

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He also characterized the antebellum North as “the mere cringing vassal of the South” and a section of the country that contained “lords” and “nobles” of its own that comprised an “aristocracy of the skin.”

From Salon

He’d like to return us to the Middle Ages where he and people like Elon Musk ruled as King while the rest of us remain vassals to the throne.

From Salon

Tbilisi Mayor and Georgian Dream general secretary Kakha Kaladze echoed his message, accusing "so-called friends of Georgia" of directly interfering in Saturday's forthcoming elections: "We refuse to be anyone’s vassal, following the wishes of others."

From BBC

Sawai was magnificent for the way she deftly handled her character’s many facets — vassal, translator, warrior, lover, avenger.

He also said his party, which favours withdrawing the UK from Nato, would end “subservience” to the US, describing the UK as an American "vassal state".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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