subordination
noun
the act of placing in a lower rank or position.
self-subordination
-
a word derived from
subordination.
Example Sentences
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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
Faith, religion, conscience, self-subordination to the public good, have no place in his list of human motives; interest, ambition, calculation, envy, are the forces which, according to his experience, move the world.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds
It begins in self-subordination and reaches its finest realization in social subordination.
From Woman in Modern Society by Earl Barnes
The self-subordination of socialism would be as deadening as the self-surrender of fatalism to that will-power which must ever be the mainspring of a play to move the multitude.
From Inquiries and Opinions by Brander Matthews
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
