Definition of servile

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Servile (a.) Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience..

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Servile :: Servile (a.) Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience..
Ducker :: Ducker (n.) A cringing, servile person; a fawner..
Ape :: Ape (v. t.) To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally..
Observance :: Observance (n.) Servile attention; sycophancy.
Servileness :: Servileness (n.) Quality of being servile; servility.
Sorehon :: Sorehon (n.) Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel..
Adulate :: Adulate (v. t.) To flatter in a servile way.
Labor :: Labor (n.) Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work..
Crouch :: Crouch (v. i.) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
Vassal :: Vassal (a.) Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
Lackey :: Lackey (v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
Truckler :: Truckler (n.) One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another..
Creature :: Creature (n.) A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
Servile :: Servile (a.) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter..
Abjectly :: Abjectly (adv.) Meanly; servilely.
Obeisant :: Obeisant (a.) Ready to obey; reverent; differential; also, servilely submissive..
Minion :: Minion (n.) An obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite.
Slavish :: Slavish (a.) Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great..
Subserviently :: Subservient (a.) Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling..
Menial :: Menial (n.) A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices..
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