Subjugation

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated; subjection.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of subjugating.
  • 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."
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