0 the quality of being servile (= too eager to serve and please someone else ):
She found the servility of the hotel staff embarrassing.
The world they want to create is one of constant submission and servility.
She drew a proper distinction between loyalty and servility.
He displayed a servility which was completely at odds with his imposing physical presence.
The waiter spoke with a sort of cool servility that was professional to the point of contempt.
Chapter 5 presents an inquiry into door keeping, concluding that both class and gender servility is imposed on the migrant families through this institution.
According to this understanding of dignity, servility and selfdeprecation are moral defects.
Courtiers were compromised by the servility they must display in their places at court.
Likewise, one should be able to recognize the existence of negative relationships such as servility, domination and oppression.
Furthermore, the distinctions he makes, in the same place, between humility and servility, arrogance and selfrespect, also appeal to this masculine discipline and ideal of the noble.
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