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Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Obsequiousness&oldid=340861628"This page was last edited on 30 January 2010, at 07:37 (UTC). (UTC).
Too great obsequiousness or abjection of oneself; this would be considered an excess of humility, and could easily be derogatory to one's office or holy character; or it might serve only to pamper pride in others, by unworthy flattery, which would occasion their sins of tyranny, arbitrariness, and arrogance. The virtue of humility may not be ...
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In spring of the following year, he first openly showed his disgust at the behaviour of Nero and the obsequiousness of the senate after the emperor's letter justifying the murder of Agrippina had been read, and various motions congratulating Nero proposed. Senatorial procedure required each individual in turn to give his opinion on the motion ...
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Mr William Collins is a fictional character in the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.He is a distant cousin of Mr Bennet, a clergyman and holder of a valuable living at the Hunsford parsonage near Rosings Park, the estate of his patroness Lady Catherine De Bourgh, in Kent.
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