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Type Words
Synonyms conquering, conquest, subjugation
Type of gaining control, capture, seizure
Derivation subject
Type Words
Synonyms subjugation
Type of relationship
Has types bondage, captivity, confinement, enslavement, thralldom, slavery, thraldom, thrall, oppression, peonage, repression
Derivation subject

Examples of subjection

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They are under the subjection of the elders, as is the rest of the congregation.
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Increase in subjection of the forest-steppe population, archeologically traced.
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What wonder that his wild nature, untamed by years of subjection, should still revolt?
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Labelling anyone either is misleading, as both terms are open to instense subjection.
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The next year marked the subjection of the hitherto semi-independent district of Argyll.
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This subjection, with its loss of patriarchal status, was never popular.
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That subjection-that subjugation-is all too apparent in the suspects Weber photographs.
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He brought a part of Normandy under subjection, and dissuaded Henry from going into England.
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All tribes were pressed into subjection to the colonial government by the late 19th century.
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More examples
  • Subjugation: forced submission to control by others
  • Conquest: the act of conquering
  • Slavery is a system in which people are the property of others. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand wages. In some societies it was legal for an owner to kill a slave. ...
  • The act of bringing something under the control of something else; The state of being subjected
  • A being under the authority or control of another.
  • Under the rule of, or owing allegiance to.
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