subservient
English
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From Latin subserviens, present active of subservio (“to serve under”).
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Adjective
subservient (comparative more subservient, superlative most subservient)
- Useful in an inferior capacity.
- Obsequiously submissive.
- 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 22 May 2019:
- Sansa takes her place as ruler of the North, a free and independent land no longer subservient to anywhere else. And Arya does what she’s always done best: Make her own way, literally leaving everything she knows behind to see what’s over the next horizon.
Derived terms
Translations
useful in an inferior capacity
obsequiously submissive
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Noun
subservient (plural subservients)
- A person who is subservient to another; a subordinate.
- 1852, Mary Jane Windle, A Legend of the Waldenses: And Other Tales, page 176:
- James Harrison, the tenant, was one of his subservients, chosen by him in consequence of his austere piety, and great influence with his sect […]
See also
Latin
Verb
subservient
- third-person plural future active indicative of subserviō
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