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English
Etymology
From slave + -ish.
Pronunciation
Adjective
slavish (comparative more slavish, superlative most slavish)
- in the manner of a slave; abject
1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. , volume I, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC, page 344:“You have freed them from higher restraint, Halbert,” answered the Abbot, “and therein taught them to rebel against your own.” / “Fear not that, Edward,” exclaimed Halbert, who never gave his brother his monastic name of Ambrosius; “none obey the command of real duty so well as those who are free from the observance of slavish bondage.”
- utterly faithful; totally lacking originality, creativity, or reflection
a slavish reproduction
slavish observation of rules
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