servile
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At the time of the Third Servile War, women had none of the legal status men held and were commonly limited to the roles of wife and mother.
From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025
However, by picking up the action shortly after the end of the Third Servile War, DeKnight and his writers return Ashur to life just in time to see the Roman Republic begin to crumble.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025
Servile and even unceremonial forms of speech had temporarily disappeared.
From Salon • Jan. 11, 2014
Next month the magazine Novena Notes, published by the Servile Fathers to promote novenas to Our Sorrowful Mother, will suspend publication because there is no real demand for it.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, says Mr. Belloc—and this is the kernel of his whole thesis—the Collectivist theory in action does not produce Collectivism, but something quite different; namely, the Servile State.
From Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Vocabulary lists containing servile
Julius Caesar
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"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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