Meaning of morigeration | Babel Free

Definitions

Servile acquiescence; unqualified sycophancy towards a bully or a tyrant.

uncountable

Examples

“Not that I can taxe or condemne the morigeration or application of learned men to men in fortune.”

“[F]or the Spaniards, of all other, love to be reſpected at their ovvn homes, and cannot abide an inſolent cariage in a Stranger; On the other ſide, Courteſie and Morigeration, vvill gaine mightily upon them, […]”

“1659 September 3, John Evelyn, letter to Robert Boyle that fond morigeration to the mistaken customs of the age”

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