servility

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Servility towards persons of distinction became general; it extended from outward marks of courtesy, such as addressing them by their titles, to the actual sentiment.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

Servility of extended hand or passive brain is the last quality that a mystic of the nobler kind will demand or desire in his auditors.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

He is perfectly genteel and civil, very polite to the Ladies, respectful and submissive to his Lord and Master, but without Flattery or Servility.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Freedom from Servility The organization of a producers' society would do more than abolish the cruder aspects of the present economic struggle.

From The Next Step A Plan for Economic World Federation by Nearing, Scott

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)