obeisant in English

adjective

[o'bei·sant || əʊ'beɪsnt]

deeply respectful, servilely obedient

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1. "What is so chilling about Blee's story," commented Dana Frank in the Nation, "is that those women did not join just to serve as obeisant handmaidens to their male masters