Subordination

Word SUBORDINATION
Character 13
Hyphenation sub or di na tion
Pronunciations /səˌbɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/

Definitions and meanings of "Subordination"

What do we mean by subordination?

The process of making something subordinate.

The process of subordinating.

The property of being subordinate; inferiority of rank or position.

The quality of being properly obedient to a superior (as a superior officer).

Synonyms and Antonyms for Subordination

The word "subordination" in example sentences

Qom's lack of subordination is a threat to Khamenei's rule and to the long-term survival of the Islamic Republic -- a system which prides itself with fusing (at least in theory) Islamic values and a republican form of governance. ❋ Geneive Abdo (2010)

– I feel like the jump from the first clause (the ultimate cost for subordination is her memories) to the second (can she master the art of mind-hacking without blowing her cover?) is kind of awkward. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The subordination is supported by the actions of individuals, cultural norms and values, and the institutional structures and practices of society. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Western-style democracy, rationalism, objectivity, and the autonomy of the individual are slogans designed to convince the downtrodden that subordination is justice ... ❋ Unknown (1994)

In the Services this quality reaches its maximum during war when the military demands the ultimate in subordination of self-the surrender of life. ❋ Unknown (1965)

But if democracy is based upon human values, if it sets the state in subordination to the individual, it meets, in those respects, the mind and spirit of the Hindu. ❋ Unknown (1950)

It makes no difference whether the combination is one of workers or of employers, a corporation or a labour union, it must live in subordination to the public interest. ❋ Unknown (1921)

The crimes that He most abhors, when not prevented, are yet overruled in subordination to his cause, and against their guilty authors. ❋ Pastor O. E. Daggett (1865)

All respect for their employers, all subordination, is at an end; the very air of Canada severs the tie of mutual obligation which bound you together. ❋ Unknown (1852)

Did they not struggle against the word subordination as the worm against the needle which transfixes it? ❋ Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller (1782)

It being our chief end to glorify God, other things must be sought and attended to in subordination and subserviency to the Lord. ❋ Unknown (1721)

They are rulers under Christ, and act in subordination to him; and rulers for Christ, for the advancement of his kingdom. ❋ Unknown (1721)

We must love nothing besides him, but what we love for him and in subordination to him. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Note, Gifts are fit objects of our desire and pursuit, in subordination to grace and charity. ❋ Unknown (1721)

We have here the reason of this injunction: It is God's law and commandment that they should be under obedience (v. 34); they are placed in subordination to the man, and it is a shame for them to do any thing that looks like an affectation of changing ranks, which speaking in public seemed to imply, at least in that age, and among that people, as would public teaching much more: so that the apostle concludes it was a shame for women to speak in the church, in the assembly. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The woman who challenges religious notions of her subordination is a parrhesiastes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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