self-subordination

• a word derived from subordination.
  subordination

  noun

  the act of placing in a lower rank or position.

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self-subordination

Daniel Hudson Burnham was born in Henderson, New York, on September 4, 1846, into a family devoted to Swedenborgian principles of obedience, self-subordination, and public service.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Not personal valor, but the important aspect of it, lies in self-subordination to the universal cause.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

An easy short cut to freedom would tempt too many from the harder but nobler way of compromise, conciliation, and self-subordination.

From Problems of Conduct by Durant Drake

The good soldier has learnt the hardest lesson of all—the lesson of self-subordination to a higher and bigger personality.

From A Student in Arms Second Series by Donald Hankey

By the self-subordination of this longing to the understanding as its matter and instrument, God becomes actual God, becomes spirit and love.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

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