All 3 Uses of

servile
in
Middlemarch

I tax no man's motives: let them lie between himself and a higher Power; but I do say, that there are influences at work here which are incompatible with genuine independence, and that a crawling servility is usually dictated by circumstances which gentlemen so conducting themselves could not afford either morally or financially to avow.†
Chpt 2

servility = submissiveness -- often an attitude of someone who is so submissive or eager to serve and please that they seem to lack self-respect

I shall vote for the appointment of Mr. Tyke, but I should not have known, if Mr. Hackbutt hadn't hinted it, that I was a Servile Crawler.†
Chpt 2 *

...... This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself though not of lands; And having nothing yet hath all.†
Chpt 6

Definitions:

(1) (servile)
too eager to serve or obey others -- often in a way that seems overly submissive, weak, or lacking self-respect

or:

related to low-status tasks
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

You might want to remember this as sounding similar to servant. Both words come from the Latin word for slave (servus).