subordination

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Because claims based on distinctions of mere birth, fortune, or position, were found to be injurious, many have gone to the extreme of inferring that all distinctions, involving subordinations, are useless.

From American Woman's Home by Beecher, Catharine Esther

"You see you're very modern, after all," said Viner, "with your co�rdinations and subordinations."

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

"He noted that in her proceeding from first principles through her several subordinations, there was no state through which she did not pass, as if her path lay through all things."

From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is scarcely to be imagined, through how many subordinations of interest the ardour of party is diffused; and what multitudes fancy themselves affected by every satire or panegyrick on a man of eminence.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

The evil of the censor, at any rate, is never illustrated in his rational subordination of impulse, but in those subordinations that violate human and social freedom.

From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis