noun.
The state of being subjugated; forced control by others.
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noun.
the act of subjugating by cruelty
noun.
the act of conquering
noun.
forced submission to control by others
Word Usage
"This gloomy picture I hold up, not as a prophecy of the fate we are doomed to incur, but only as descriptive of what the term subjugation unquestionably imports."