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subjection
[ suhb-jek-shuhn ]
subjection
/ səbˈdʒɛkʃən /
noun
- the act or process of subjecting or the state of being subjected
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Other Words From
- sub·jection·al adjective
- nonsub·jection noun
- presub·jection noun
- resub·jection noun
- self-sub·jection noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of subjection1
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Example Sentences
By now near to drowning in complicity and subjection, I obeyed.
And thou didst bow thyself to women: and by thy body thou wast brought under subjection.
Nicholson and John Lawrence were there; could they hold those warrior-tribes in subjection, or, better still, in leash?
With this political subjection one is reluctant to associate a more sordid kind of obligation.
The law is immoral: it is the conspiracy of rulers and priests against the workers, to continue their subjection.
But the most important event in this stage of evolution was the subjection of the plant world to man.
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