Definition of Subordination

Subordination

The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.

The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection.

Place of inferior rank.

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Subordination Quotations

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
Karl Kraus

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
Irving Babbitt

Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
C. L. R. James

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
Wilhelm Dilthey

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
Philip Roth

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
Beatrice Potter Webb

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.
Catharine Beecher

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Subordination Translations

subordination in German is Unterordnung

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