subordination

Etymology

From Middle French subordination, from Medieval Latin subordinatio.

noun

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

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