0 a willingness to do what other people want, or the act of considering your wishes as less important than those of other people:
The song "Stand By Your Man" has become a symbol of female subservience.
Their subservience to rulers of the day was the key for survival.
His subservience is emphasized by the repeated talk of "servant" and "lord".
A coat signalled subservience, dependence or independence in very real ways.
And what it means to be a private is thus defined and constituted in part by that relationship of subservience.
Female respectability became more strongly correlated with female subservience.
The state legislature merely declared that the existing practices constituted the new state system (minus any further subservience to the crown).
Let's assume that she began life as the daughter of loving parents in a culture with deep traditions of female subservience.
