subjection
IPA: sʌbdʒˈɛkʃʌn
noun
- The act of bringing something under the control of something else.
- The state of being subjected.
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Examples of "subjection" in Sentences
- The best way to keep inferiors in subjection, is to be grave with them.
- Then shalt thou judge the departed monarch, and the writer who lived in subjection to his power.
- "He went down with them to Nazareth, and lived in subjection to them"; the moral is not, after all, to be in favour of truancy.
- If you say; “- Yes I do – I can help people” – then you will notice that the language will be in subjection to what you can offer!
- Consider how long you have been in subjection under the predominance of parents, of your husbands; now you be free in liberty, and free ... at your own law '(qtd. in King 50).
- He holds that women must be kept in subjection, writing: "Woe unto the Race if ever these loveable creatures should break loose from mastership, and become the rulers or equals of Man."
- Ge 3: 16, woman's "subjection" is represented as the consequence of her being deceived. being deceived -- The oldest manuscripts read the compound Greek verb for the simple, "Having been seduced by deceit": implying how completely
- In the Indian-occupied sector of this unhappy state, with a handful of local stooges backed by Hindu and Sikh troops keeping in subjection 3 million resentful Muslims, conditions remind one of life in one of the Soviet satellites.
- 'In the nineteenth century the Turks were hopelessly beaten, and the Porte was falling to pieces under the world's eye, yet the Austrians were flogging their peoples to keep them in subjection exactly as if there were a terrifying enemy at their gates.'
- Their turn was an exciting and even terrifying one, when viewed from the audience; for, jumping about and roaring, they were made to appear as if about to destroy the slender little lady who performed with them and seemed to hold them in subjection only by her indomitable courage and a small riding-switch in her hand.
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