adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a subservient manner.

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1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 22. The worst of all Evils made … to contribute subserviently to the Good and Perfection of the Whole.

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1795.  Ann. Reg., Hist., 18. They acted subserviently to all its designs.

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1823.  W. Scoresby, Jrnl., p. xv. Discovery was an object, therefore, that could only be pursued subserviently to this.

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1885.  Manch. Exam., 26 Aug., 5/4. Unless it [sc. the Government] complies subserviently with the Nationalist demands.

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  So Subservientness rare–0 (1727 Bailey Vol. II.).

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