1. (

• subservience

) the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan; "all his actions were in subservience to the general plan" ;

2. (

• subservience ,
• subservientness

) in a subservient state ;

3. (

• obsequiousness ,
• servility ,
• subservience

) abject or cringing submissiveness ;