Antonyms for subservience
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : suh b-sur-vee-uh nt |
| Phonetic Transcription : səbˈsɜr vi ənt |
Definition of subservience
Origin :- 1630s, "useful, serviceable," from Latin subservientem (nominative subserviens), present participle of subservire "assist, lend support," from sub "under" (see sub-) + servire "serve" (see serve). The meaning "slavishly obedient" is first recorded 1794.
- As in obedience : noun good behavior; submissiveness
- As in subordination : noun subjection
- As in submissiveness : noun obedience
- As in tractability : noun obedience
- As in tractableness : noun obedience
- As in dependence/dependency : noun addiction, need
- As in humility : noun humbleness, modesty
- Mr. Berridge stood a figure of subservience in the background.
- Extract from : « The Wonder » by J. D. Beresford
- And if they would not assume positions of subservience, they must be destroyed.
- Extract from : « Eight Keys to Eden » by Mark Irvin Clifton
- Not a few of the Romans were chafing at their leader's subservience to a "Barbarian" queen.
- Extract from : « Famous Sea Fights » by John Richard Hale
- Pius IV had carried to an extreme his subservience to Philip.
- Extract from : « A History of The Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2, » by Henry Charles Lea
- They have not a touch of subservience in their manner or their talk.
- Extract from : « The Spirit of America » by Henry Van Dyke
- In that moment, she was not aware that she stood between duty and subservience.
- Extract from : « The Homesteader » by Oscar Micheaux
- All that her weakness and subservience had caused, continued, and at last the event of the night.
- Extract from : « The Homesteader » by Oscar Micheaux
- She was in the first subservience to that power which feeds the streams of human history.
- Extract from : « The Right of Way, Complete » by Gilbert Parker
- But the cheapest which we purchase with subservience is too dear.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 » by Various
- Apart from all such questions, the fact of subservience exists.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 » by Various
Synonyms for subservience
- abasement
- accordance
- acquiescence
- agreement
- amenability
- amenableness
- attachment
- bashfulness
- compliance
- compliancy
- conformability
- conformity
- contingency
- deference
- demureness
- diffidence
- docility
- duteousness
- dutifulness
- duty
- fawning
- habit
- helplessness
- hook
- inability
- inferiority complex
- lack of pride
- lowliness
- manageability
- meekness
- mortification
- nonresistance
- obedience
- obsequiousness
- observance
- orderliness
- passiveness
- quietness
- reserve
- resignation
- respect
- reverence
- security blanket
- self-abasement
- self-abnegation
- servility
- servitude
- sheepishness
- shyness
- subjection
- submission
- submissiveness
- subordination
- subservience
- tameness
- timidity
- timorousness
- tractability
- tractableness
- unobtrusiveness
- unpretentiousness
- vulnerability
- weakness
- willingness
- yoke
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