Both Uses of
subservient
in
War and Peace
- Here, as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he treated them with absent-minded contempt.†
Chpt 4 *
- At Anna Pavlovna's they talked with perplexity of Bonaparte's successes just as before and saw in them and in the subservience shown to him by the European sovereigns a malicious conspiracy, the sole object of which was to cause unpleasantness and anxiety to the court circle of which Anna Pavlovna was the representative.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(subservient) serving in a less important role -- sometimes implying excessive submissiveness