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Definition
submissive — typically excessively so (so submissive or eager to serve and please that one seems to have no self-respect)
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relating to the work that requires obeying demeaning commands
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slave-like or relating to slaves
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relating to the work that requires obeying demeaning commands
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slave-like or relating to slaves
- But it is impossible to express his noble resentment at our savage treatment of the Houyhnhnm race; particularly after I had explained the manner and use of castrating horses among us, to hinder them from propagating their kind, and to render them more servile.Part 4 — A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnms (27% in)
servile = submissive
- The reader may remember, that when I signed those articles upon which I recovered my liberty, there were some which I disliked, upon account of their being too servile; neither could anything but an extreme necessity have forced me to submit.Part 1 — A Voyage to Lilliput (60% in)
- Whether those holy lords I spoke of were always promoted to that rank upon account of their knowledge in religious matters, and the sanctity of their lives; had never been compliers with the times, while they were common priests; or slavish prostitute chaplains to some nobleman, whose opinions they continued servilely to follow, after they were admitted into that assembly?Part 2 — A Voyage to Brobdingnag (69% in)
There are no more uses of "servile" in Gulliver's Travels.
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