Crossword clues for subservience
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subservience \Sub*serv"i*ence\, Subserviency \Sub*serv"i*en*cy\, n. The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility.
The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and
subserviency to infinite functions.
--Bentley.
There is a regular subordination and subserviency among
all the parts to beneficial ends.
--Cheyne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from subservient + -ence. Related: Subserviency (1620s).
Wiktionary
n. The state of being subservient.
WordNet
n. the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan; "all his actions were in subservience to the general plan"
in a subservient state [syn: subservientness]
abject or cringing submissiveness [syn: obsequiousness, servility]
Usage examples of "subservience".
The little red people interpreted their sullen bovine glares as subservience only, but all the while the Archaea were looking at them thinking, You cannibals, we are going to get you some day.
Martin to them, with plenty of bowing and scraping and general subservience.
To answer my own question, then, the Three Laws are intended to provide a workable simulation of an idealized moral code, modified to ensure the docility and subservience of robots.
For the Lilliputians think nothing can be more unjust, than for people, in subservience to their own appetites, to bring children into the world, and leave the burthen of supporting them on the public.
His relationship with van Delden was a very strange one now, the old subservience overlaid by a pushful self-confidence, and yet underneath it I sensed that nothing had really changed, the bond between them as strong as ever, so that I wasn't surprised at the deep concern in his voice as he said, 'Please, you take my advice.