Which preposition to use with subserviency
Perhaps he felt the necessity of some apology to one who, though so much his inferior in rank, was so competent to appreciate his conduct, and who had just denounced, in the strongest language, his own fatal subserviency to the arts of that irresponsible and meretricious body.
By a wily system of trickery, the subserviency of the abbeys was also aimed at.
Forgotten lessons of truth and honesty and purity were remembered, and the wavering resolve was stayed and strengthened; worldly expediency gave way before the magnanimous purpose, cringing subserviency before independent manliness.
A condition of subserviency from which it only escaped again for a short time during the palmy days of the eighteenth century.