"subservience" in the noun sense
1. subservience
the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan
"all his actions were in subservience to the general plan"
2. subservience, subservientness
in a subservient state
3. obsequiousness, servility, subservience
abject or cringing submissiveness
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