KJV Dictionary Definition: servile

servile

SERV'ILE, a. L. servilis, from servio, to serve.

1. Such as pertains to a servant or slave; slavish; mean; such as proceeds from dependence; as servile fear; servile obedience.

2. Held in subjection; dependent.

Ev'n fortune rules no more a servile land. Pope.

3. Cringing; fawning; meanly submissive; as servile flattery.

She must bend the servile knee. Thomson.

servilely

SERV'ILELY, adv.

1. Meanly; slavishly; with base submission or obsequiousness.

2.With base deference to another; as, to copy servilely; to adopt opinions servilely.

servileness

SERV'ILENESS, n.

servility

SERVIL'ITY,

1. Slavery; the condition of a slave or bondman.

To be a queen in bondage is more vile

Than is a slave in base servility. Shak.

2. Mean submission; baseness; slavishness.

3. Mean obsequiousness; slavish deference; as the common servility to custom; to copy manners or opinions with servility.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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