Excessively eager to please; obsequious.
British “subjects” (not citizens, note) are just that: gleefully servile to the monarchy’s institutionalised inequality...
Not belonging to the original root.
a servile letter
An element which forms no part of the original root.
A slave; a menial.
From Middle English servyle, from Old French servil, servile, from Latin servīlis, from servus (“slave”). By surface analysis, serve + -ile.
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