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Graham's flamboyant self-subjugation goes so far beyond what is necessary to curry favor that it is clearly something he feels the need to do for his own psychological reasons.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2019

The self-control and self-subjugation enter into the sacrament.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

Isaiah referred to the utter helplessness into which Ahaz had cast Judah by his cowardly self-subjugation to Tiglath-Pileser.

From Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile) by Landman, Isaac

The mightiest men have hitherto always bowed reverently before the saint, as the enigma of self-subjugation and utter voluntary privation—why did they thus bow?

From Beyond Good and Evil by Zimmern, Helen