All 4 Uses of
servile
in
A Room of One's Own
- For genius like Shakespeare's is not born among labouring, uneducated, servile people.†
Chpt 3 *
- Whilst the dull manage of a servile house Is held by some our utmost art and use.†
Chpt 4
- But there I do not agree with him, for I should have liked to have had more even of dubious gossip so that I might have found out or made up some image of this melancholy lady, who loved wandering in the fields and thinking about unusual things and scorned, so rashly, so unwisely, 'the dull manage of a servile house'.†
Chpt 4
- No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(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).