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subjection

noun as in bondage

noun as in enslavement

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noun as in servitude

noun as in slavery

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Example Sentences

By now near to drowning in complicity and subjection, I obeyed.

And thou didst bow thyself to women: and by thy body thou wast brought under subjection.

Nicholson and John Lawrence were there; could they hold those warrior-tribes in subjection, or, better still, in leash?

With this political subjection one is reluctant to associate a more sordid kind of obligation.

The law is immoral: it is the conspiracy of rulers and priests against the workers, to continue their subjection.

But the most important event in this stage of evolution was the subjection of the plant world to man.

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On this page you'll find 769 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to subjection, such as: enslavement, serfdom, servitude, subjugation, yoke, and chains.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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