subordinate
adjective
placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
subordinately
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a word derived from
subordinate.
Example Sentences
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Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
It is only subordinately punishment, or law, or threatening, or the revelation of the wickedness of the transgression.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren
There were two subordinate actors, who played, subordinately well, the fore and hind legs of a donkey.
From Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by John Ruskin
But the conceptual method is a transformation which the flux of life undergoes at our hands in the interests of practice essentially and only subordinately in the interests of theory.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James
In the first case the holder's pleasure is in his possessions, and in his money subordinately, as the means of bettering or adding to them.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin
