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Definition of Subjection
1. Noun. Forced submission to control by others.
Generic synonyms: Relationship
Specialized synonyms: Repression, Oppression, Captivity, Enslavement, Bondage, Slavery, Thraldom, Thrall, Thralldom, Bondage, Peonage, Confinement
Derivative terms: Subject, Subjugate
2. Noun. The act of conquering.
Generic synonyms: Capture, Gaining Control, Seizure
Specialized synonyms: Norman Conquest
Derivative terms: Conquer, Conquer, Conquer, Subject
Definition of Subjection
1. n. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing.
Definition of Subjection
1. Noun. The act of bringing something under the control of something else. ¹
2. Noun. The state of being subjected. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subjection
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subjection
Literary usage of Subjection
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Thomas, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"CHAPTER IX Of obedience and subjection IT is verily a great thing to live in ...
Far safer is it to live in subjection than in a place of authority. ..."
2. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Thomas, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"CHAPTER IX Of obedience and subjection IT is verily a great thing to live in ...
Far safer is it to live in subjection than in a place of authority. ..."
3. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States by John Codman Hurd (1862)
"By this law, applied by judicial tribunals, they necessarily recognize the anterior
subjection of the alien to the juridical power of the state in which he ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"Far safer is it to live in subjection than in a place of authority. Many are in
obedience from necessity rather than from love; these take it amiss, ..."
5. The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy by William Paley (1815)
"CHAPTER IL HOW subjection TO CIVIL GOVERNMENT IS MAINTAINED. COULD we view our
own species from a distance, or regard mankind with the same sort of ..."
6. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"CHAPTER XXV THE subjection OF CHILDREN FROM the modes of conduct which affect
... I shall only consider facts bearing upon that state of subjection to which ..."
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