Subordination Synonyms and Antonyms

səbôrd'nāzhən
The quality of obedient submissiveness
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. subjection
  2. submission
  3. mastery
  4. servitude
Antonyms:
  1. insubordination
The semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. hyponymy

Words Related to Subordination

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Subordination Sentence Examples

  • When Arius asserted the subordination of the Son to the Father, and denied the eternal generation, Athanasius and his party asserted the Homoousia, the cosubstantiality of the Father and the Son.

  • In some of the island-groups independent native states were recognized for some time by the powers, as in the case of Hawaii, which, after the deposition of the queen in 1893 and the proclamation of a republic in 1894, was annexed to the United States of America only in 1898, or, again, in the case of Tonga, which provided a curious example of the subordination of a native organization to unauthorized foreign influence.

  • He observes with truth that Natural Theology, if you remove from it the idea of subordination to Christianity as (claiming to be) a special revelation, tends to pass into a philosophy of religion.

  • These forms never occur scattered haphazard over a region, but always in an orderly subordination depending on their mode of origin.

  • Chadwick (Studies on AngloSaxon Institutions, 1905) says that "the sense of subordination must have been inherent in the word from the earliest time," but it has no connexion with the German dienen, to serve.

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