subjection

From Anglo-Norman subjectioun, from Old French subjection (Modern French sujétion), from Latin subjectiō.

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subjection (countable and uncountable, plural subjections)

1. The act of bringing something under the control of something else.
2. The state of being subjected.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, .”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: J M for John Starkey , →OCLC, page 83, lines 415–420:

     Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.

   • 1996, Jacques Gernet, translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization‎, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 580:

     The smallest incidents were to serve as pretexts for demonstrations of force and for demands for indemnities and reparations which increased China's subjection. For example, in 1876 China was constrained to sign the Conventions of Chih-fu (near Yen-tʻai, in north-eastern Shantung) with Great Britain after the murder of an English interpreter on the borders of Yunnan and Burma; the result was five new 'open ports' on top of the fifteen or so already existing.

Borrowed from Latin subjectiō.

subjection oblique singular, f (oblique plural subjections, nominative singular subjection, nominative plural subjections)

1. subjection; state of being subjected

• → English: subjection
• French: sujétion

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