servient

subordinate

Adjective

  1. subordinate
    • servient youth, and magisterial eld - 1757, John Dyer, The Fleece:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin serviēns, servientis. Doublet of servant and sergeant.

Forms

more servient most servient

Derived

servience servient estate servient premises servient tenement

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