Definition of Servile

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Servile

Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.

Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.

Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.

Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.

An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.

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Servile Quotations

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
Lord Byron

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Charlie Sheen

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
George Byron

Servile Translations

servile in German is servil
servile in Spanish is servil
servile in Swedish is servil, krypande

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