Assertion: henry's support | /r/CapableOf | pay slavish respect
Facets:
value: almost
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Europe was being kept on the boil by rivalries between the French and Spanish kingdoms, mostly over Italian claims; and, against the advice of his older councillors, Henry in 1512 joined his father-in-law, Ferdinand II of Aragon, against France and ostensibly in support of a threatened pope, to whom the devout king for a long time paid almost slavish respect.