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- noun Plural form of
servility .
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Examples
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His wife had adored him once on a time; she had bored him with a thousand servilities that had only estranged him the more.
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His wife had adored him once on a time; she had bored him with a thousand servilities that had only estranged him the more.
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Like the thousand servilities, the joys of the night are separable events.
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Russell has the wife "lavishing on him a thousand servilities."
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Like the thousand servilities, the joys of the night are separable events.
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Russell has the wife "lavishing on him a thousand servilities."
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To acquire one of these, I stooped — with friends of the Swanns, and even with photographers — to servilities which did not procure for me what I wanted, but tied me for life to a number of extremely tiresome people.
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His wife had adored him once on a time; she had bored him with a thousand servilities that had only estranged him the more.
Madame Bovary 2003
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It suggests that the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected; that the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.
Three Guineas 2003
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Tom's mother entered now, closing the door behind her, and approached her son with all the wheedling and supplication servilities that fear and interest can impart to the words and attitudes of the born slave.
Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955
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