obsequiousness

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being obsequious; servile compliance. uncountable,usually
    — The crusty portier and the crusty clerks gave us the surly reception which their kind deal out in prosperous times, but by mollifying them with an extra display of obsequiousness and servility we finally got them to show us to the room which our boy had engaged for us.

词形变化

词源

From Middle English obsequyousnesse, equivalent to obsequious + -ness.
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