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There is, at least, no country in Europe in which servility has not invented and vanity received genealogies yet more chimerical.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)There is little difficulty in summing up their tenets: it is "Reverence, without servility."
ANCIENT FAITHS AND MODERNTHOMAS INMANParliament tried respectful remonstrances in vain; the cardinal thought himself safe in the servility of the nation.
THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS, VOL XVARIOUSResistance to power has shut the door of the House of Commons to one man; obsequiousness and servility, to none.
THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT DISCONTENTSEDMUND BURKEA constitutional habit of servility to his creditor when present before him signalized Algernon.
RHODA FLEMING, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHI purposely select this case from a period when Southern arrogance and Northern servility were far less infamous than now.
THE TRIAL OF THEODORE PARKERTHEODORE PARKERNothing can be more repugnant to that temper of patient servility which it is the policy of such governments to foster.
THE PORTLAND SKETCH BOOKVARIOUSWe deprecate such grovelling servility in the people as much as we pity the pride of the nobles.
SECRET HISTORY OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND, FROM THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE THE THIRD TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE THE FOURTH, VOLUME II (OF 2)LADY ANNE HAMILTONIt is servility to rule-of-thumb criteria, and a dullness of perception, a timidity in acceptance.
INSTIGATIONSEZRA POUNDHe was an idol whom the entranced people bowed down before and worshiped, with more than Oriental servility.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE VOL. IV, NO. 19, DEC 1851VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO SERVILITY
- adulation
- applause
- approbation
- blandishment
- blarney
- bootlicking
- cajolery
- commendation
- encomium
- eulogy
- eyewash
- fawning
- flattering
- flummery
- fulsomeness
- gallantry
- gratification
- hokum
- honeyed words
- incense
- ingratiation
- jive
- laud
- mush
- obsequiousness
- palaver
- plaudits
- pretty speech
- puffery
- servility
- smoke
- snow
- snow job
- soft words
- soft-soap
- stroke
- sweet talk
- sycophancy
- toadyism
- tribute
- truckling
- unctuousness
- abasement
- bashfulness
- demureness
- diffidence
- docility
- fawning
- inferiority complex
- lack of pride
- lowliness
- meekness
- mortification
- nonresistance
- obedience
- obsequiousness
- passiveness
- reserve
- resignation
- self-abasement
- self-abnegation
- servility
- sheepishness
- shyness
- subjection
- submissiveness
- subservience
- timidity
- timorousness
- unobtrusiveness
- unpretentiousness
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