Subservience vs Servile - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between subservience and servile

is that subservience is the state of being subservient while servile is (grammar) an element which forms no part of the original root.

of or pertaining to a slave.

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The state of being subservient.

(en adjective)

of or pertaining to a slave

* Alexander Pope

Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!

submissive or slavish

servile''' flattery; '''servile obedience

(grammar) Not belonging to the original root.

a servile letter

(grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e'' in ''tune .

(en noun)

(grammar) An element which forms no part of the original root.

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