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Politeness that forgot it had a spine.
means An excessive, cringing eagerness to please or obey, especially toward someone with power over you.
from From Latin servilis, 'of a slave,' built on servus, 'slave.' The word kept its leash: in Latin a servile act was literally one befitting a slave, and English borrowed it in the 1500s still smelling of bondage — the cringing, obedient posture of someone with no standing to refuse.
- root
- latin servus, meaning slave
- vs humility
- humility chooses, servility obeys
- workplace form
- laughing hardest at the boss's jokes
- tell
- agrees before you finish the sentence