subservience
noun
sub·ser·vi·ence
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Definition of subservience
1
: a subservient or subordinate place or function
2
: obsequious servility
Examples of subservience in a Sentence
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Their stories are buried within sources intended to promote white supremacy and black subservience, not to celebrate or credit black knowledge. — NBC News, "Black Culinary: Staple or Special Sauce," 6 Sep. 2019 Perot wanted independence for EDS, but Smith demanded subservience to GM. — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, "How Ross Perot became GM's biggest shareholder — and a bitter battle took off," 9 July 2019 Dolan, an owner from the very old school of player subservience, has once again flunked modern N.B.A. civics. — Harvey Araton, New York Times, "These Knicks Do Not Belong in Today’s N.B.A.," 1 July 2019 In Gilead—the repressive American regime in which the main protagonist Offred is forced to live—it is intended to function as a sign of female subservience. — Annie Sutherland, Quartzy, "“The Handmaid’s Tale” costume is now the ultimate symbol of women’s rights," 13 June 2019 The modesty costumes were meant to indicate subservience, but they have been redeployed by activists to mean the opposite. — Annie Sutherland, Quartzy, "“The Handmaid’s Tale” costume is now the ultimate symbol of women’s rights," 13 June 2019 The politics that snagged these readers’ interest — and, often, annoyance — was gender-based through and through, a general acknowledgement of Blazer’s power and Alice’s subservience. — Maria L. La Ganga, www.latimes.com, "What's L.A. reading? Our habits are as diverse as the city itself," 6 June 2019 Automatic subservience to public-sector unions, particularly the teachers, ended. — WSJ, "Wisconsin Barricade Shows Real Revolution," 24 Aug. 2018 The book, through case studies, examined the entrenched societal systems that preserved the subservience, dependence and hopelessness of the slave era. — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, "Price Cobbs, Who Helped Define ‘Black Rage,’ Is Dead at 89," 10 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'subservience.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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