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Definition of Subjugation
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 subjugating by cruelty. "The tyrant's oppression of the people"
3. Noun. The act of conquering.
Generic synonyms: Capture, Gaining Control, Seizure
Specialized synonyms: Norman Conquest
Derivative terms: Conquer, Conquer, Conquer, Subject
Definition of Subjugation
1. n. The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.
Definition of Subjugation
1. Noun. The act of subjugating. ¹
2. Noun. The state of being subjugated; forced control by others. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subjugation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subjugation
Literary usage of Subjugation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1912)
"One must hope that the time will come when war will disappear entirely, but, as
long as war exists, subjugation will also be recognised. ..."
2. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"'Herein, brethren, a Bhikkhu, wisely reflecting, remains shut in by the subjugation
of the organ of Sight. For whereas to the man not shut in by the ..."
3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"subjugation takes place only when a belligerent, after having ... subjugation may,
therefore, correctly be defined as extermination in war of one ..."
4. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"If some writers l refuse to recogn;se subjugation at all as a mode of acquiring
... subjugation is, as a rule, a mode of acquiring Whole or the entire enemy ..."
5. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis (1881)
"subjugation of the Northern States.—Humiliating Spectacle of New York. ...
Now follows the humiliating spectacle of the subjugation of the State government ..."
6. A Short History of the Confederate States of America by Jefferson Davis (1890)
"Now follows the humiliating spectacle of the subjugation of the State Government
... Thus the States were brought to a condition of subjugation, and their ..."
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