Noun:

ख़ुशामद, भृत्यभाव, चापलूसी,

servility's Usage Examples:

We should infer also that he was not dependent on any professional occupation, and that he was separated in social station, and probably too by tastes and manners, from the higher class to which Tacitus and Pliny belonged, as he was by character from the new men who rose to wealth by servility under the empire.

Guicciardini pushed his servility so far as to defend this infamous despot at Naples in 1535, before the bar of Charles V., from the accusations brought against him by the Florentine exiles (Op. ined.

Roman history was no longer a record of national glory, stimulating the patriotism and flattering the pride of all Roman citizens, but a personal eulogy or a personal invective, according as servility to a present or hatred of a recent ruler was the motive which animated it.

Macaulay's description of Whitgift as "a narrow, mean, tyrannical priest, who gained power by servility and adulation," is tinged with rhetorical exaggeraticn; but undoubtedly Whitgift's extreme High Church notions led him to treat the Puritans with exceptional intolerance.

But mysticism and political servility between them gave the deathblow to chiliasm in the Greek Church.

Education was neglected and discouraged, servility and treachery were developed, and in less than a century the people had become depraved and degraded to an almost incredible extent.

He planned a set of royal marriages with England, and this was the ground of his subjects' charge against him of servility to England.

He aspired to the role of a politician, and has left a memorable example of genius degraded to servility for the sake of a riband and a title.

There was neither oppression on the one hand nor servility on the other to explain this abandonment of their traditions.

He shares with Daru the honour of being the hardest worker and most devoted supporter in Napoleon's service; but it has generally been considered that he carried devotion to the length of servility, and thus often compromised the real interests of France.

Synonyms:

sycophancy, submissiveness, obsequiousness, subservience,

Antonyms:

disobedience, insubordination,