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subservient

adj

Etymology

From Latin subserviens, present active of subservio (“to serve under”).

  1. derived from subserviens

Definitions

  1. Useful in an inferior capacity.

  2. Obsequiously submissive.

  3. A person who is subservient to another

    A person who is subservient to another; a subordinate.

    • James Harrison, the tenant, was one of his subservients, chosen by him in consequence of his austere piety, and great influence with his sect […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at subservient. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at subservient. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at subservient

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA