Subordination

[sub·or·di·nate]

Subordination means lowering. In animal packs, gestures of subordination include staying low and making gestures of play. In the military, one shows subordination by saluting first.

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The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.

Noun
the act of mastering or subordinating someone

Noun
the quality of obedient submissiveness

Noun
the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head

Noun
the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class

Noun
the state of being subordinate to something

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n.
The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.

n.
The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection.

n.
Place of inferior rank.


Subordination

Sub*or`di*na"tion , n. [Cf. F. subordination.] 1. The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting. 2. The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection.
Natural creature having a local subordination.
3. Place of inferior rank.
Persons who in their several subordinations would be obliged to follow the example of their superiors.

The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.

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Usage Examples

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

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Other Usage Examples

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.

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