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Example sentences for "subjection"

Lexicographically close words:
subjecte; subjected; subjectes; subjecteth; subjecting; subjectis; subjective; subjectively; subjectivism; subjectivistic
  1. As we revert to those early periods in the history of the human race in which it prevailed, our minds are shocked at the barbarism which we behold; we are horror stricken at the awful subjection of justice to brute force.

  2. The worker was in subjection to his Lord, but in return his lord had certain responsibilities and duties to perform, and there was a large measure of community of interest between them.

  3. For the individual is the subject of knowledge in its relation to a definite particular manifestation of will, and in subjection to this.

  4. In the case of the brutes this subjection of knowledge to the will can never be abolished.

  5. The clearest notion of the subjection enforced by the dominant race of Dorians may be collected from the speech of Brasidas to the Peloponnesians, in Thucydides.

  6. God, and of His love watching over His people; and at the same time there may be a reference also to the former subjection by David.

  7. Powerful influences have been exerted, from the highest quarters, to bring her into subjection to material interests and unheroic maxims, to sap the chivalry and enthusiasm of her youth.

  8. It is the successio and inclinatio of Seneca; but the ancients had already judiciously remarked, that the nature of these shocks is too variable to permit any subjection to these imaginary laws.

  9. Every one is born a subject to his father, or his prince, and is therefore under the perpetual tie of subjection and allegiance.

  10. It is plain mankind never owned nor considered any such natural subjection that they were born in, to one or to the other that tied them, without their own consents, to a subjection to them and their heirs.

  11. And thus we see how natural freedom and subjection to parents may consist together, and are both founded on the same principle.

  12. I am sure, they owe subjection to the laws of God and nature.

  13. Such were the Romanized Spaniards, who formed a majority of the population, but who had long been held in subjection by the masterful Goths.

  14. For ages after the subjection of Ireland, in open defiance of the English, the people continued to dispense justice, and to enforce the old Brehon laws of the country.

  15. In other words, it was the subjection of the natural female instincts and the deification of brute passion during the later ages of human history which have degraded religion and corrupted human nature.

  16. After the subjection of Egypt by the stranger kings and the consequent introduction into the country of Sabianism, the dual creative force residing in the sun is represented by Seth.

  17. From one point of view it was the nationalization of the Church, the subjection of the ecclesiastical to the lay power.

  18. The campaign progressed favorably and ended in the subjection of the "King of Chiammay" and his allies, but a scheming queen, desirous of putting her paramour on the throne, poisoned the conqueror upon his return to Odiaa in 1545.

  19. Indeed, if it were possible to get at it the Great Kaan [of China] would soon bring them under subjection to him.

  20. It was a clear case of spirit being brought into subjection to form.

  21. But the due subjection of this self-feeling will come duly; in the qualifications that even now make it lovely the sure promise of that is contained.

  22. In a greater state of subjection than a person at the command of another, it was my duty to be so by inclination.

  23. The assiduity and subjection required, completed my disgust, and I never set foot in the office without feeling a kind of horror, which every day gained fresh strength.

  24. And under Moslem subjection they remained till the nineteenth century.

  25. Their subjection by the Turks was as {20} complete as that of the Serbs and Bulgarians, though of course they were exempt from ecclesiastical domination at the hands of an alien clergy speaking a foreign language.

  26. The whole task of government, as the Turks conceived it, was to collect tribute from the conquered and keep them in subjection by playing off their differences against one another.

  27. The angels' subjection to God is greater than their presiding over inferior things; and the latter is derived from the former.

  28. Such is precisely the sin of pride--not to be subject to a superior when subjection is due.

  29. There is another kind of subjection which is called economic or civil, whereby the superior makes use of his subjects for their own benefit and good; and this kind of subjection existed even before sin.

  30. Therefore the subjection of other animals to man is proved to be natural.

  31. Further, there is no precedence where obedience and subjection do not exist.

  32. As, therefore, the potentiality of the intelligence is one thing and the potentiality of primary matter another, so in each is there a different reason of subjection and change.

  33. One is servile, by virtue of which a superior makes use of a subject for his own benefit; and this kind of subjection began after sin.

  34. Dei xiv, 11), consists in the perfect subjection of the body to the soul.

  35. By those words Gregory means to exclude such inequality as exists between virtue and vice; the result of which is that some are placed in subjection to others as a penalty.

  36. It is far better to have the will in subjection to God than to load His altar with the costliest sacrifices.

  37. The Spirit of the Lord was departed from Saul, and this was faith's warrant for separation from his person, while, at the same time, there was the fullest subjection to his power as the king of Israel.

  38. The separation and the subjection should both be complete.

  39. The Lord Jesus was living in the most profound subjection to the Father.

  40. It was this subjection of spirit that led David to give way in the matter of the kingdom, and to take his place in the lonely cave of Adullam.

  41. In looking through these chapters, there is nothing that so strikes us as David's beautiful subjection of spirit.

  42. I would advise the Reverend Arthur to remember in future the Apostle’s injunctions on the duty of ruling his own house well, and having his children in subjection with all gravity.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subjection" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolutism; acceptance; acquiescence; assent; bondage; captivity; compliance; conquest; consent; control; deference; discipline; domination; feudalism; homage; humility; minority; nonresistance; obedience; obeisance; occupation; oppression; passivity; peonage; peril; resignation; restraint; serfdom; servility; servitude; slavery; subjection; subjugation; subordination; subservience; thrall; tyranny; vassalage; villenage; yielding