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Servilely

Servilely \Serv"ile*ly\, adv. In a servile manner; slavishly.

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servilely

adv. In a servile way; fawningly.

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servilely

adv. in an obsequious manner; "she acts obsequiously toward her boss" [syn: obsequiously, subserviently]

Usage examples of "servilely".

Goths in the enjoyment of rude liberty, he servilely copied the institutions, and even the abuses, of the political system which had been framed by Constantine and his successors.

And the missions, instead of following servilely in the track of bloody conquest to assume the tutelage of subjugated and enslaved races, were to share with the soldier and the trader the perilous adventures of exploration, and not so much to be supported and defended as to be themselves the support and protection of the settlements, through the influence of Christian love and self-sacrifice over the savage heart.