Subordination
[sə,bɔːdɪ'neɪʃn] or [səb,ɔrdn'eʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of obedient submissiveness.
(noun.) the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head.
(noun.) the state of being subordinate to something.
Edited by Linda--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Subjection, subserviency.
Editor: Vince
Examples
- The extreme form of this subordination, namely drudgery, offers a clew. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The error is in implying that we must adopt measures of subordination rather than of utilization to secure efficiency. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the subordination of particulars to general principles he experienced a satisfaction akin to the sen se of beauty or the joy of artistic production. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is pertinent, however, to inquire why the idea is so current that work involves subordination of an activity to an ulterior material result. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Moreover, experience, not content with its proper position of subordination, was the great foe to the acknowledgment of the authority of reason. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Great rearrangements are necessary, and a systematic legal subordination of personal self-seeking to the public good. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After the institution of feudal subordination, the king was as incapable of restraining the violence of the great lords as before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The latter were under no regular discipline or subordination, but almost always equally jealous of one another, and of the king. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But womanly, I hope, said Mrs. Garth, half suspecting that Mrs. Casaubon might not hold the true principle of subordination. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Civil government supposes a certain subordination. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It established a regular subordination, accompanied with a long train of services and duties, from the king down to the smallest proprietor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There is, therefore, little or no authority or subordination in this period of society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There is no period, accordingly, in which authority and subordination are more perfectly established. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The consideration of that necessity comes, no doubt, afterwards, to contribute very much to maintain and secure that authority and subordination. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The former were under a regular discipline and subordination to the papal authority. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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