servility

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SERVIL'ITY, 1. Slavery; the condition of a slave or bondman. To be a queen in bondage is more vile Than is a slave in base servility. Shak. 2. Mean submission; baseness; slavishness. 3. Mean obsequiousness; slavish deference; as the common servility to custom; to copy manners or opinions with servility.
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