All 3 Uses of
subservient
in
Gulliver's Travels
- For the Lilliputians think nothing can be more unjust, than for people, in subservience to their own appetites, to bring children into the world, and leave the burthen of supporting them on the public.†
Chpt 1 *
- I told him, "that in the kingdom of Tribnia,{3}by the natives called Langdon,{4}where I had sojourned some time in my travels, the bulk of the people consist in a manner wholly of discoverers, witnesses, informers, accusers, prosecutors, evidences, swearers, together with their several subservient and subaltern instruments, all under the colours, the conduct, and the pay of ministers of state, and their deputies.†
Chpt 3
- But a wise prince would rather choose to employ those who practise the last of these methods; because such zealots prove always the most obsequious and subservient to the will and passions of their master.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(subservient) serving in a less important role -- sometimes implying excessive submissiveness