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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Subservient \Sub*serv"i*ent\, a. [L. subserviens, -entis, p. pr
See {Subserve}.]
Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior
capacity; serving to promote some end subordinate; hence
servile, truckling.
Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make
subservient in one kind or other --Bp. Fell.
These ranks of creatures are subservient one to
another. --Ray.
Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their
proselytizing spirit. --Burke.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
subservient
adj 1: compliant and obedient to authority; "editors and
journalists who express opinions in print that are
opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and
replaced by subservient ones"-G. B. Shaw
2: abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;
"slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish
yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become
submissive and subservient" [syn: {slavish}, {submissive}]
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