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
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 Drake, Durant
Not personal valor, but the important aspect of it, lies in self-subordination to the universal cause.
These tendencies, while on the one hand they are liable to induce a very easily detectable vanity, may also lead to an unusual self-subordination to veracity.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Ellis, Havelock
As to cookery, the services of a chef with great powers of self-subordination seemed to be pointed at, a cordon-bleu ready to work in harness.
From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend
