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Subordination   /səbˌɔrdənˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Subordination

noun
1.
The state of being subordinate to something.
2.
The semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class.  Synonym: hyponymy.
3.
The grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head.
4.
The quality of obedient submissiveness.
5.
The act of mastering or subordinating someone.  Synonym: mastery.






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"Subordination" Quotes from Famous Books



... General Andrew Jackson issued from Nashville, Tenn., an order reciting that "the commanding general considers it due to the principles of subordination which might and must exist in an army to prohibit the obedience of any order emanating from the Department of War to officers of the division who have reported and been assigned to duty, unless coming through him as the proper organ of communication." At a dinner party in New York ...
— General Scott • General Marcus J. Wright

... desired to remain, "if they could do so with honour, in connection with England as the Mother Country." He was followed by a gentleman named Inglis, who said that "it was in Canada as in Ireland," a faction called itself Canada, and that we must bring "back the colonists," like the Irish, "to subordination." ...
— The Framework of Home Rule • Erskine Childers

... expressly called here to do what the first two chapters implied that we must do—to "consider Him" (ver. 1), to bend upon His Person, character, and work the attention of the whole heart and mind. We are pointed to His holy fidelity to His mission (ver. 2) in words which equally remind us of His subordination to the Father's will and of His absolute authority as the Father's perfect Representative. We are reminded (ver. 3) of that magnificent other side of His position, that He acts and administers in "the house of God" not as a servant but as the Father's "own SON (ver. 6) that serveth Him." Nay, such ...
— Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews • Handley C.G. Moule

... clear, and animated enforcement of religion, morality, loyalty, and subordination, while it delights and improves the wise and the good, will, I trust, prove an effectual antidote to that detestable sophistry which has been lately imported from France, under the false name of Philosophy, and with a malignant industry has been employed ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... active, aggressive man, Masters might secure an ally who could attack Farnsworth on the other flank. But in doing that he would have to disappoint Millard, who was steadily growing in value to the bank, but who, from habitual subordination to Farnsworth, and the natural courtesy of his disposition, could not be depended on to offer much resistance. To introduce a stranger would be to disturb the status quo, and the first maxim in the conduct of institutions is to avoid violent ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston


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