subserviency

English edit

subserviency (usually uncountable, plural subserviencies)

The state of being subservient; subservience.
- 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 47–48:
  At the same time, I would hint, that in all our proceedings the greatest caution and circumspection must be observed; and that every means employed should be in entire subserviency and conformity with the character and temper of her towards whom our views are directed.