Subjection
[səb'dʒɛkʃən]
Definition
(a.) The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing.
(a.) The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government of another; a state of obedience or submissiveness; as, the safety of life, liberty, and property depends on our subjection to the laws.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Dependence, subordination, subserviency.
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Examples
- And when it tore him he crouched in silent subjection under it, and when it left him alone again, he refused to know of it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He seemed to believe in education through subjection and torment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He slept in the subjection of his own health and defeat. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He reigned for seven years, and he reduced most of the Ionian cities of Asia Minor to subjection. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Oh, and the beauty of the subjection of his loins, white and dimly luminous as he climbed over the side of the boat, made her want to die, to die. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Numerous as the people are in the several old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons, or armies, to keep them in subjection. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And the world of experience can be brought under control, can be steadied and ordered, only through subjection to its law of reason. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But Black Michael was a fit leader for this band of cutthroats, and, withal held them in fair subjection to his rule. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Gerald expected to find some handsomeness or nobleness, to account for a woman's subjection. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But Rosamond's romance turned at present chiefly on her crown-prince, and it was enough to enjoy his assured subjection. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She inherits her mother's talents, and must have been under subjection to her. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Now you have the experience of all that I can give, the heart's devotion, taintless love, and unhesitating subjection to you. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Will felt as if he were forced to cross his small boundary ditch, and what he saw beyond it was not empire, but discontented subjection. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My doctrine has never aimed at the subjection of the understanding. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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