subservient

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective compliant and obedient to authority; -G. B. Shaw
adjective serving or acting as a means or aid
adjective abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; ; - S.H.Adams

From Latin subserviens, present active of subservio (“to serve under”).

But truth can not be subservient to systems. — My Recollections of Lord Byron, Teresa, contessa di Guiccioli
No more subservient paltering at the doors of fish-houses! — Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast, Holman Day
Time, life-usage, all became subservient to me when in these victorious moods. — Under the Red Dragon: A Novel, James Grant

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