servility

servile | American Dictionary

servile
adjective
us/ˈsɜr·vəl, -vɑɪl/
eager to serve and please someone else in a way that shows a lack of respect for yourself:
As a waiter, you want to be pleasant to people without appearing servile.

Examples of servile

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He was wearing livery and the livery signalled his servile status.
They are thus apparently restricted to two genres : ethnographic or servile.
These highlight the need for more comparative work between desert peoples, between nomads and ' sedentaries ', and between the colonial and post-colonial ' servile ' condition.
It is also true that servile imitation is no reform and is often worse than the original evil.
The ratio of males to females rose dramatically with an equal fall in the ratio of children to adults in the total servile population.
Two other ostensible patronyms seem by their diminutive form to imply a servile origin.
The causes are completely different and must be sought in the ways in which marriages are concluded and in the servile condition of women.
Where the frankpledge system existed, all free and servile men were pledged to one another in small groups, usually of ten men, providing mutual surety.
The vast majority of bondservants had been freed, and legally servile statuses largely abolished.
As is the case with many of the world's cultures, the clothing of wealthy members of society was far more ornate than that of the working or servile classes.
The entire historiography of nineteenth-century 'legitimate trade ' and its internal use of servile labor is simply ignored here.
And while the partitions defining people according to religion, servile status, tribe, guild, or household slowly faded, the blurred outlines of the nuclear family began to solidify.
Our intercourse with them could not be called society, which supposes a degree of equality; but absolute command on the one side, and servile obedience on the other.
Covering their heads and bodies was one of the first public demonstrations that formerly servile men and women made of their freedom in the post-abolition era.
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