slavish

See also: Slavish

English edit

slave +‎ -ish

slavish (comparative more slavish, superlative most slavish)

in the manner of a slave; abject
- 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 344:
  “You have freed them from higher restraint, Halbert,” answered the Abbot, “and therein taught them to rebel against your own.” / “Fear not that, Edward,” exclaimed Halbert, who never gave his brother his monastic name of Ambrosius; “none obey the command of real duty so well as those who are free from the observance of slavish bondage.”
utterly faithful; totally lacking originality, creativity, or reflection
a slavish reproduction

slavish observation of rules

in the manner of a slave