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Servility

//sɚˈvɪ.lɪ.ti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being servile. countable, uncountable

    "Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis."

  2. 2
    abject or cringing submissiveness wordnet

Etymology

From servile + -ity.

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