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 state of the world is a mass of contradictory opinions, which can only be resolved by subservience to custom.
And, increasingly, working men shunned the wearing of livery, which carried a particular taint of subservience.
It is possible to hold even the values of subservience and obedience authentically.
She probably holds no views about the inferior role of women or the goodness of subservience generally.
Such subservience denies individual freedom and confirms the natural superiority of the past.
Can we find the kind of balance between internal and external complexity that creates a synergy, rather than a dominance and subservience, between them?
It portrays their rank as mere window-dressing in the continuing story of subservience.
Let us also stipulate that she was brought up to accept subservience in a way that we would regard as oppressive.
