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
If you think of religion in this way, and bear in mind that its aims are extremely practical and only subordinately theoretical, it will seem to you worthy of the highest respect.
From Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Blue is present subordinately in all tertiary and broken colours, and being nearest in the scale to black, breaks and contrasts powerfully and agreeably with white, as in pale blues, skies, &c.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
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
