subordination

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English

Etymology

From Middle French subordination, from Medieval Latin subordinatio.

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Noun

subordination (countable and uncountable, plural subordinations)

  1. The process of making or classing (something or somebody) as subordinate.
    • 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria‎, New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., published 1834:
      Sound logic, as the habitual subordination of the individual to the species, and of the species to the genus […]
  2. The property of being subordinate; inferiority of rank or position.
  3. The quality of being properly obedient to a superior (as a superior officer); this quality as a systemic principle of discipline within a hierarchical organization.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin subordinātiōnem. See also subordonner and -ation.

Pronunciation

Noun

subordination f (plural subordinations)

  1. subordination
  2. (grammar) use of subclauses
    Antonym: parataxe

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