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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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It dramatized, with a potent mixture of satire and resistance, the experience of subjection particular to Black Americans.

Where colonial literature either struggled to translate the finer contours of traditional African gender arrangements or offered only a cursory sketch of their subjection, Sembène stayed attuned to the shades of women’s displacement.

Only when people begin to imagine a full emancipation, do they perceive the full extent of their subjection.

From BBC

Morning after morning Vermeer sits at his easel, as the world rages out there, the world where people are kneeling in subjection, where people are being branded with a hot iron.

In recent days, Le Pen has rejected any “subjection to an American protectorate” and suggested unease with French troops under foreign command.

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

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