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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
- The crouching servility, usually so acceptable a quality in a slave, did not...Chapter 6 (11% in)
servility = submissiveness
- He was just proud enough to demand the most debasing homage of the slave, and quite servile enough to crouch, himself, at the feet of the master.Chapter 4 (20% in)
There are no more uses of "servile" in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
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