Get to know Servility better with 6 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like obsequiousness or subservience.
Servility in a sentence
Servility meaning
The condition of being servile.
Synonyms of Servility
Using Servility
- The main meaning on this page is: The condition of being servile.
- Useful related words include: obsequiousness, subservience, submissiveness.
Context around Servility
- Average sentence length in these examples: 17.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Servility
- In this selection, "servility" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 17.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, total, breed, base, towards and dictatorships stand out and add context to how "servility" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include dictatorships breed servility dictatorships breed and epithet of servility and the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "servility" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with servility
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
No servility towards China, not to any country. (8 words)
Talk not of peacefully submitting to chains and stripes—it is base servility! (13 words)
Jeffrey Tambor’s Malenkov is clueless, while Molotov’s total servility is nearly tragic. (14 words)
Uncle Tom became what critic Linda Williams describes as "an epithet of servility" and the novel's reputation plummeted until feminist critics led by Jane Tompkins reassessed the tale's female characters. (32 words)
It said: Dictatorships breed oppression, dictatorships breed servility, dictatorships breed cruelty; more loathsome still is the fact that they breed idiocy. (21 words)
In the popular American imagination of that time, Latino identity was often equated with service, manual labor and servility. (19 words)
Talk not of peacefully submitting to chains and stripes—it is base servility! (13 words)
Example sentences (6)
In the popular American imagination of that time, Latino identity was often equated with service, manual labor and servility.
Jeffrey Tambor’s Malenkov is clueless, while Molotov’s total servility is nearly tragic.
No servility towards China, not to any country.
It said: Dictatorships breed oppression, dictatorships breed servility, dictatorships breed cruelty; more loathsome still is the fact that they breed idiocy.
Talk not of peacefully submitting to chains and stripes—it is base servility!
Uncle Tom became what critic Linda Williams describes as "an epithet of servility" and the novel's reputation plummeted until feminist critics led by Jane Tompkins reassessed the tale's female characters.