Synonyms:
mastery, subordination
Meaning: the act of mastering or subordinating someone
Synonyms:
subordination
Meaning: the quality of obedient submissiveness
Synonyms:
subordination
Meaning: the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head
Synonyms:
hyponymy, subordination
Meaning: the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class
Synonyms:
subordination
Meaning: the state of being subordinate to something
Usage examples
Note the emphasis and subordination in some conversation or speech you have heard.
You, sir, know how necessary subordination is in any large establishment of servants."
A few sumptuary laws, a subordination to the men, and a total want of authority, do not so much affect the sex, as to be coldly and indelicately treated by their husbands.
It can place the militia under one plan of discipline, and, by putting their officers in a proper line of subordination to the Chief Magistrate, will, as it were, consolidate them into one corps, and thereby render them more efficient than if divided into thirteen or into three or four distinct independent companies.