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excessively eager to flatter or serve
- But, you must know, your father lost a father; That father lost, lost his; and the survivor bound, In filial obligation, for some term To do obsequious sorrow:1.2 — Act 1 Scene 2 — Elsinore (a room of state in the castle) (36% in)
obsequious = to yield to the desires of others by serving in a proper role
There are no more uses of "obsequious" in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
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