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.
Wiktionary
n. The state of being subservient; subservience.
Usage examples of "subserviency".
The Bedouins with whom I performed this journey were wild fellows of the Desert, quite unaccustomed to let out themselves or their beasts for hire, and when they found that by the natural ascendency of Europeans they were gradually brought down to a state of subserviency to me, or rather to my attendants, they bitterly repented, I believe, of having placed themselves under our control.
Denmark had never been engaged in so arduous a contest, and never did the Danes more nobly display their national couragea courage not more unhappily than impolitically exerted in subserviency to the interests of France.