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Meaning of "servile work" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SERVILE WORK

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SERVILE WORK

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determiner
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Servile work is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SERVILE WORK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of servile work in the English dictionary

The definition of servile work in the dictionary is work of a physical nature that is forbidden on Sundays and on certain holidays.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SERVILE WORK

servicer
services
servicewoman
servicewomen
servicing
servient
servient tenement
serviette
serviette ring
servile
servilely
servileness
servilism
servility
serving
serving dish
serving hatch
serving spoon
servitor
servitorial

WORDS THAT END LIKE SERVILE WORK

all in a day´s work
artwork
at work
charity work
contract work
course work
detective work
dirty work
field work
group work
life´s work
maid of all work
office work
out of work
outside work
police work
research work
rough work
social work
voluntary work
welfare work

Synonyms and antonyms of servile work in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «servile work» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SERVILE WORK

Find out the translation of servile work to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of servile work from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «servile work» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

奴性的工作
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

trabajo servil
570 millions of speakers

English

servile work
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ग़ुलामी का काम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العمل ذليل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

рабская работа
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

trabalho servil
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্রীতদাস কাজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

travail servile
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kerja servile
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dienstarbeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

肉体労働
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

노예 일
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Servile work
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

công việc nô lệ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சர்வே வேலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कामदेव
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kibirli çalışma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lavoro servile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

służalczy praca
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

рабська робота
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lucrare de slugă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δουλική εργασία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beroepswerk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

arbetssyssla
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

servilearbeid
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of servile work

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SERVILE WORK»

The term «servile work» is used very little and occupies the 172.052 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SERVILE WORK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about servile work

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SERVILE WORK»

Discover the use of servile work in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to servile work and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Works of Thomas Shepard: First Pastor of the First ...
If'the Scriptures may be judge herein, we shall find that when they forbid all manner of work, they interpret this of servile work. The work forbidden in the annual Sabbaths, (which did but shadow out the rest on this/Sabbath) it is servile work, ...
Thomas Shepard, John Adams Albro, 1853
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Summa Theologica:
'You shall do no work on that day']." Now servile work is so called from servitude: and servitude is threefold. One, whereby man is the servant of sin, according to Jn. 8:34, "Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin," and in this sense all ...
Saint Thomas (Aquinas), 1985
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An Essay toward the Amendment of the last ...
Te shall do no servile work therein ; word for word, ye shall do no work of serjitude. [Therein} is a supplement, how needful, I (hall shew anone. ' Herein we must inquire, 1. what this servile work or work of B I servitude is. And it is hard to fay, ...
Robert Gell, 1659
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On the Cessation of the Laws
For it is said in Deuteronomy, “You shall not do any work therein” (Dt 5.14).54 But the Truth itself shows that servile work is sin in the Gospel ofJohn, when he says, “Whosoever commits sin, is the servant of sin” (Jn 8.34). Therefore, to do no ...
Robert Grosseteste, 2012
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Leisure: The Basis of Culture ; The Philosophical Act
It is also to be observed that this is the source of the distinction between the artes liberates and the artes serviles, the liberal arts and servile work. And to the further objection that this distinction only interests historians, one might ...
Josef Pieper, 2009
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This Is the Faith
To enable them to do this she orders them to abstain from servile work. By servile work we mean in general that which requires more of the body than of the mind. Nevertheless, not only the nature of the work must be taken into account but ...
Francis Ripley, 1973
7
Between Memory and Hope: Readings on the Liturgical Year
For it would render our Eucharistic thanksgiving hollow if we were not, in fact, a people set free from servile work. The concept of servile work has an interesting history. In classical antiquity the term "servile work" was used in contrast to the ...
Maxwell E. Johnson, John Francis Baldovin, 2000
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The Holy Bible: Translated from the Latin Vulgat: Diligently ...
18 And the first day of them shall be venerable and holy: you shall not do any servile work therein. 19 And you shall offer a burnt-sacrifice a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old, without blemish: 20 ...
‎1824
9
The Hellrazer's Bible
18 And the first day of them shall be venerable and holy: you shall not do any servile work therein. 19 And you shall offer a burnt sacrifice a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old, without blemish: 20 ...
Pastor Philip G. Marzec
10
Questions of Catholics answered
Here we may simply drop the inquiry whether that is servile work or not (we may say that it is) and turn to the reasons that make servile work lawful on Sunday. One of them is the reason of piety, the service of God. Servile work, even when ...
W. Herbst

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SERVILE WORK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term servile work is used in the context of the following news items.
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Maintain the tradition of the holy rosary
This devotion has aided our Chamorros to avoid unnecessary servile work on Sundays and holy days and to obey God's commandments. This lifestyle has to be ... «Pacific Daily News, Jul 15»
2
How did the Jewish holiday of Shavuot become cheesecake day?
... after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work” (Numbers 28:26). Confusingly, the paragraph does not mention milk. «Haaretz, May 15»
3
How the end of Sukkot morphed into Shemini Atzeret and Simhat …
The Bible provides scant information on how Shemini Atzeret was marked or what it meant. Sacrifices were made in the Temple, servile work was prohibited as ... «Haaretz, Oct 14»
4
The great middle-class identity crisis
You start working in a bookshop to make a bit of cash. Your thesis tails off. ... But it's difficult to construct an identity from servile work. In one sequence of the ... «Financial Times, Nov 13»
5
The Precepts of the Church: An Invitation to Life
Hopefully we are also familiar with the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, ... The problem of servile work is tricky; many have very little choice about when they ... «Catholic Culture, Jan 13»
6
Frank X. Gaspar a much beloved writer – Interview
Servile work for survival. Keeping a roof over our heads. Fixing the leaks. Paying bills. It's always seemed to me that writing was this huge reward waiting at the ... «Portuguese American Journal, Dec 12»
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What Downton Abbey Can Teach Us About the Future of Energy
... homes in the era of Downton Abbey were messy, loud devices, Levine says, and so they were relegated to the basement, where much of the servile work was ... «StateImpact Texas, Feb 12»
8
Are we having fun yet?
In his masterful essay, “In Tune With the World,” Josef Pieper writes that to keep a feast is not to escape from work simply. It's to put down servile work: the work ... «Catholic News Agency, Nov 11»
9
Engels : The Force Theory of Herr Eugen Dühring
Engels says "only in order that Friday should work for Crusoe's benefit. ... Nor is force the cause of the "subjection of man to make him do servile work" at least ... «CounterCurrents.org, Sep 10»
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Column: The crucible
Replacing people with machines, he said, is beneficial so long as we eliminate the 'servile work or slavery' that Karl Marx flagged in his Communist manifesto ... «Chemistry World, May 10»

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