Subjection
noun
The state of being under control or influence of someone or something.
The oppressive regime kept the citizens in subjection through fear
Often appears as...
- under subjection
- keep in subjection
noun
Submission or obedience to an authority or ruler.
The king demanded total subjection from his subjects
Often appears as...
- total subjection
- subjection to authority
Usage tips
Formal
noun
A situation when a person or thing is under control or influence of something or someone, often negative.
The subjection of the educational system to market forces has its downsides
Often appears as...
- subjection of society
- subjection to market forces
Usage tips
Disapproving
Academic
noun
The state of being under control or influence of someone or something.
The oppressive regime kept the citizens in subjection through fear
Often appears as...
- under subjection
- keep in subjection
noun
Submission or obedience to an authority or ruler.
The king demanded total subjection from his subjects
Often appears as...
- total subjection
- subjection to authority
Usage tips
Formal
noun
A situation when a person or thing is under control or influence of something or someone, often negative.
The subjection of the educational system to market forces has its downsides
Often appears as...
- subjection of society
- subjection to market forces
Usage tips
Disapproving
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Feeling
Often implies negative emotions towards the controlling power or influence.
The citizens rebelled against their subjection to the dictator's whims.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Imbalance
Indicates an imbalance of power, where one has authority over another.
The ruler's subjection of the peasants left them with no rights.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Coercive
Subjection can involve force, threats, or limitations on freedom.
Under subjection, their movements and speech were closely monitored.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Feeling
Often implies negative emotions towards the controlling power or influence.
The citizens rebelled against their subjection to the dictator's whims.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Imbalance
Indicates an imbalance of power, where one has authority over another.
The ruler's subjection of the peasants left them with no rights.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Coercive
Subjection can involve force, threats, or limitations on freedom.
Under subjection, their movements and speech were closely monitored.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Feeling
Often implies negative emotions towards the controlling power or influence.
The citizens rebelled against their subjection to the dictator's whims.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Imbalance
Indicates an imbalance of power, where one has authority over another.
The ruler's subjection of the peasants left them with no rights.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Coercive
Subjection can involve force, threats, or limitations on freedom.
Under subjection, their movements and speech were closely monitored.
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Quote examples
Susan B. Anthony
American Activist
No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.
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Henry A. Wallace
American Vice President
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
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Norman Thomas
American Activist
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
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Dayananda Saraswati
Indian Leader
Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God.
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Victor Hugo
French Author
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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Mary Ritter Beard
American Historian
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
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Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
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Alvaro Uribe
Colombian Statesman
In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.
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W. Clement Stone
American Businessman
Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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Guillaume Apollinaire
French Novelist
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
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Susan B. Anthony
American Activist
No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.
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Henry A. Wallace
American Vice President
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
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Norman Thomas
American Activist
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
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Dayananda Saraswati
Indian Leader
Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God.
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Victor Hugo
French Author
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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Mary Ritter Beard
American Historian
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
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Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
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Alvaro Uribe
Colombian Statesman
In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.
Quote examples
W. Clement Stone
American Businessman
Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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Guillaume Apollinaire
French Novelist
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
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