Servile

Word SERVILE
Character 7
Hyphenation serv ile
Pronunciations /ˈsɜː(ɹ).ˌvaɪl/

Definitions and meanings of "Servile"

What do we mean by servile?

Abjectly submissive; slavish. adjective

Of or suitable to a slave or servant. adjective

Of or relating to servitude or forced labor. adjective

Of or pertaining to slaves or servants.

Consisting or made up of slaves; belonging to the class of slaves; held in subjection; dependent.

Pertaining or appropriate to a slave or dependent; fit or proper for a slave.

Resembling a slave or dependent; characteristic or worthy of a slave; slavish; hence, mean-spirited; cringing; base; lacking independence.

Obedient; subject.

In grammar, of secondary or subordinate character; not independent, but answering an orthographic purpose.

A slave; a menial. noun

In grammar, a servile element, whether sound or character; a non-radical element. noun

An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical. noun

Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning adjective

Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved. adjective

Not belonging to the original root. adjective

Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune. adjective

Of or pertaining to a slave adjective

Submissive or slavish adjective

(grammar) An element which forms no part of the original root.

A slave; a menial.

A person who sacrifices their dignity and social standing for the sex they’re attracted to. Usually by obediently complying with a series of menial requests. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Servile

The word "servile" in example sentences

Independents ... was what they called the servile character and the dog-like fidelity [_Hundestreue_] of the German people, that is to say, that attachment -- innate and firmly impressed on their minds without even the aid of reason -- which that excellent people everywhere bears towards its princes. ❋ Nesta H. Webster (1918)

Because obviously black people can only be in servile positions * rolls eyes* ❋ Fantasyecho (2008)

On the first point: this saying of Augustine is to be understood as referring to one who does something out of servile fear because he is servile, that is, who has no love for justice, but merely fears punishment. ❋ Unknown (1954)

Such fear of punishment is compatible with charity, but it is not called servile unless punishment is looked upon as the principal evil, as we explained in Arts. 2 and 3. ❋ Unknown (1954)

Before the days of Christianity, slaves alone were thus employed, and from the word "servi" or slaves these are called servile works. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Wherefore in this respect those works are called servile whereby one man serves another. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

The third is the servitude of God; and in this way the work of worship, which pertains to the service of God, may be called a servile work. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

On the other hand, those works that are called servile in the first or second way are contrary to the observance of the Sabbath, in so far as they hinder man from applying himself to Divine things. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

From the first he repudiated the idea of servile imitation of ancient classical authors; discrimination should be shown in borrowing from their writings, and imitation should be restricted to features likely to strengthen the thought. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The first of these is the worship of the Eidolon, or Phantasm of Wealth; worship of which you will find the nature partly examined in the 37th paragraph of my _Munera Pulveris_; but which is briefly to be defined as the servile apprehension of an active power in Money, and the submission to it as the God of our life. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

The first of these is the worship of the Eidolon, or Fantasm of Wealth; worship of which you will find the nature partly examined in the thirty-seventh paragraph of my 'Munera Pulveris'; but which is briefly to be defined as the servile apprehension of an active power in Money, and the submission to it as the God of our life. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

There is, indeed, a reverence which is servile, that is to say irrational or selfish: but there is also noble reverence, that is to say, reasonable and loving; and a man is never so noble as when he is reverent in this kind; nay, even if the feeling pass the bounds of mere reason, so that it be loving, a man is raised by it. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

But the bed is clean; and I have had an excellent dinner; and without being obsequious or servile, which is not at all the characteristic of the people in the North of Italy, the waiters are so amiably disposed to invent little attentions which they suppose to be English, and are so lighthearted and goodnatured, that it is a pleasure to have to do with them. ❋ John Forster (1844)

Hebrews and their posterity; and, considering the signal interposition of God displayed in it, to be held not only in perpetual, but devout remembrance. house of bondage -- literally, "house of slaves" -- that is, a servile and degrading condition. for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place -- The emancipation of Israel would never have been obtained except it had been wrung from the Egyptian tyrant by the appalling judgments of God, as had been at the outset of his mission announced to Moses (Ex 3: 19). ❋ Unknown (1871)

Filled with this "one idea," he rushes into all sorts of vulgar display, pretty much like his brother Potiphars of the Free States, and not unfrequently educates his children in such an unwise and senseless fashion, that they almost invariably grow up to be nothing better than dawdling fops and parvenues, instead of refined and well-bred ladies and gentlemen, who know how to be courteous to even the poorest beggar in the streets, and to whom sneers and all other modern genteel vulgarities are as wholly unknown as servile crookings of the "supple hinges of the knee, where thrift may follow fawning." ❋ Unknown (1860)

You seem to think that if one doesn't have tenure he will immediately be "servile" to everyone and anyone, a laughable assumption, and one indicative of a certain negative viewpoint common among certain leftists and academics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If "love" meant the kind of servile mentality that Johanna seemed to exhibit toward Luis, then love wasn't for Sarah. ❋ Peale, Constance F. (1982)

Perfect charity, or love, banisheth human fear, that is, the fear of men; as also all perplexing fear, which makes men mistrust or despair of God's mercy; and that kind of servile fear, which makes them fear the punishment of sin more than the offence offered to God. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Did you see Jackson [handing] out [lollipops] to those girls? He’s such a servile dog. Wow Jackson just [twerked] for that girls tiktok, he just lost all dignity and is entirely servile. ❋ Get_got (2022)

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