as in slavery
the state of being an enslaved person
the joy that emancipation must have brought to people who had known only servility since birth
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Noun
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The multi-instrumentalist released this song in the wake of George Floyd’s death taking those three devastating words as her title and tracing Black suffering all the way back to slavery.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026 -
The state aimed but failed to pass legislation last year that would condemn the Treaty of Hartford, which in 1638 directed that Pequots who survived the war be sold into slavery.—
Livi Stanford,
Hartford Courant,
31 Jan. 2026
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The last World Cup, Bertoli notes, was held in Qatar, an energy-rich constitutional monarchy where freedom of association and expression is heavily restricted and thousands of migrant workers are held in conditions that have been likened to slavery or servitude.—
Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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Usually, their earnings help — but when such women are trapped in servitude, those gaps become all but impossible to fill.—
Ladan Anoushfar,
CNN Money,
24 Nov. 2025
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“Servility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servility. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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