slavish

• slaveish (obsolete)

From slave +‎ -ish.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsleɪvɪʃ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪvɪʃ

slavish (comparative more slavish, superlative most slavish)

1. 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.”

2. Utterly faithful; totally lacking originality, creativity, or reflection.

   a slavish reproduction

   slavish observation of rules

• slavishly