- the fact of serving in a subordinate position or role:There is no hierarchy, no dominance or subservience of any member, in this vision of the faith community.
- a servile or excessively submissive quality or manner:Was I so weak that a child could reduce me to this fawning subservience—without will, without character?
- the fact or quality of being useful, or the state of being used, to promote a certain purpose or end:Popular nationalists decried Irish subservience to British commercial interests, and promised to strengthen economic sovereignty.
