subservience

blind subservience to authority

refuse to show subservience

subservience to the enemy

demand subservience from their employees

subservience to the ruling party

subservience to societal norms

subservience to the dominant culture

subservience to external pressures

subservience to the demands of others

The value of his subservience is wasted on you.

He detected in it a trace of subservience.

He lowered his eyes as much to hide his own anger as to show subservience.

Under one, a small band of fanatics demands total obedience to an oppressive ideology, condemns women to subservience, and marks unbelievers for murder.

And then I take a second to listen to the lyrics, lyrics that, for example, place us in a position of subservience that we would never tolerate in any other context.

For the Lilliputians think nothing can be more unjust, than for people, in subservience to their own appetites, to bring children into the world, and leave the burthen of supporting them on the public.

Under this system, African people had no voting rights, and the education of native Africans was overhauled to emphasize their legal and social subservience to white settlers.

Adams was sure to learn backwards, but the case seemed entirely different with Cameron, a typical Pennsylvanian, a practical politician, whom all the reformers, including all the Adamses, had abused for a lifetime for subservience to moneyed interests and political jobbery.