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

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

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

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)