Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SERV'ILE-NESS, or SERV-IL'I-TY, n.

1. Slavery; the condition of a slave or bondman. To be a queen in bondage, is more vile / Than is a slave in base servility. – Shak.
2. Mean submission; baseness; slavishness.
3. Mean obsequiousness; slavish deference; as, the common servility to custom; to copy manners or opinions with servility.