See servile on Wiktionary
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"text": "British “subjects” (not citizens, note) are just that: gleefully servile to the monarchy’s institutionalised inequality...",
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"ref": "1903, Maurice Pillard Verneuil, Étude de la plante, page 2:",
"text": "L'éternel recommencement, l'imitation servile des styles anciens empêchent toute conception originale.",
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