Definition of Subordinateness

1. Noun. Secondary importance.

Exact synonyms: Subsidiarity
Generic synonyms: Inferiority, Lower Rank, Lower Status
Specialized synonyms: Handmaid, Handmaiden, Servant, Junior Status, Subservience, Subservientness
Derivative terms: Subordinate, Subsidiary

Definition of Subordinateness

1. Noun. The property or condition of being subordinate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Subordinateness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Subordinateness

suborder Tyranni
suborder Xenarthra
suborder Zygoptera
suborders
subordinacy
subordinaries
subordinary
subordinate
subordinate-clause
subordinate clause
subordinate clauses
subordinate conjunction
subordinate word
subordinated
subordinately
subordinateness (current term)
subordinates
subordinating
subordinating(a)
subordinating-conjunction
subordinating conjunction
subordinating conjunctions
subordination
subordinations
subordinative
subordinator
subordinators
suborganization
suborn
subornation

Literary usage of Subordinateness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures and Other Theological Papers by James Bowling Mozley (1883)
"... beginning and fountain-head of the Godhead— subordinateness to Him in that one respect, that the Son's was by its very nature a derived Godhead, which, ..."

2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"... and subordinateness, and superiority and inferiority, 227-228. ... concomitant with subordinateness, ib. No difference in salary on account of ..."

3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1847)
"... the subject, viz., of God the Son's derivation from and subordinateness to, ... so as to avoid, in n-essing the idea of derivation and subordinateness, ..."

4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley (1847)
"... the subject, viz., of God the Son's derivation from and subordinateness to, ... in expressing the idea of derivation and subordinateness, the ideas ..."

5. The Theory of Development: A Criticism of Dr. Newman's Essay on the by James Bowling Mozley (1878)
"... and subordinateness to, qua derivation from, God the Father. ... in expressing the idea of derivation and subordinateness, the ideas of posteriority in ..."

6. The History of Religion: A Rational Account of the True Religion by John Evelyn, R. M. Evanson (1850)
"... we also there meet with the same characters of the Creator's wisdom conspicuous in the Universe; and that the subordinateness of the parts of Nature is ..."

7. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1853)
"This is the first step in laying down the true function of a professor, the subordinateness of the work ' of teaching undergraduates ' to some other as yet ..."

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