servility

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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)

Servility, meanness, venality, time-serving, and a disbelief in virtue diffused themselves over the nation like a pestilential miasma, the depressing influence of which was heavy, even upon those souls which individually resisted the poison.

From Milton by Pattison, Mark

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

On the side of the head we have Modesty and Reverence, the former running down into Bashfulness and the latter into Humility or Servility.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

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