subjection

[ UK /sʌbd‍ʒˈɛkʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of conquering
  2. forced submission to control by others
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How To Use subjection In A Sentence

  • No policy which attempts to keep the majority of the population of South Africa under permanent subjection or "baaskap" can ever succeed. PAPER ON THE GROUP AREAS ACT AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE INDIAN PEOPLE OF NATAL
  • Peter, for his part, outlines the shape of Christian duty in just these terms of mutual subjection in his First Epistle, but now stated explicitly as offering the means of our conformance to Christ.
  • The best way to keep inferiors in subjection, is to be grave with them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • 'The _method and nature_ of this yielding' [of _this yielding_ -- SUBJECTION is the question] 'must also be diligently examined; as, _for instance_, whether the motions' [ 'of liberty'] 'completely cease, or exert themselves, but are constrained; for in all bodies with which we are acquainted, _there is no real, but an apparent rest, either in the whole, or in the parts_. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
  • Education meant the inculcation of truths as dogmas, the institutionalization of habits of obedience, the subjection of the individual to the community.
  • But truly, the rebellion and insubjection against the truth of God is more generally practised, even by the multitude of men though in an unfree, hidden way, how few do believe their own desperate wickedness, though God hath testified it of man? The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • This tale of ‘falling from grace,’ from divinity to abjection, of the subjection of feminine powers to the reprobation and constraints of the patriarchy society seems to be a universal trope.
  • Among which he ordained that none of this land should receive the order of knighthood, but only at Rome by the hands of the emperor, lest peradventure the rude people and unworthy would take upon them that order unworthily, which is of great dignity, and also they should make an oath never to rebel ne bear arms against the emperor, which statutes were used in all places obedient to Rome and under their subjection. The Golden Legend, vol. 3
  • For although we attribute to the Father something of originality aliquid auctoritatis through the notion of principle, nonetheless we do not attribute to the Son or the Holy Spirit any subjection or inferiority of any kind, so as to avoid all occasion for error. Archive 2005-05-01
  • The aims of this new movement were in the first instance a restoration of the old discipline, of true renunciation and piety in the monasteries themselves; but later, first, a subjection of the secular clergy to the regulars, and, secondly, the dominion of the whole spiritualty, as regulated by the monks, over the laity — princes and nations alike. Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine
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