释义 |
ˈsubjecthood [-hood.] 1. [subject n. I.] The state or condition of being a subject; = subjection 2.
1927C. C. Martindale Christ is King v. 93 The vast duty of our subjecthood almost narrows itself to this. 1968Economist 17 Feb. 16/1 In the Kenya independence settlement devised by Mr Duncan Sandys in 1963,..they were offered the chance either to acquire Kenyan citizenship, or to have full rights of British subjecthood, including passports. 2. Gram. [subject n. II.] The state of being a subject (of a sentence, etc.).
1976Classical Q. XXVI. 38 The ‘with’ idiom expresses not the idea of means, but rather that of subjecthood or even agency. 1979Trans. Philol. Soc. 223 The insertion of this reciprocal marker is shown to be sensitive to the transitive subjecthood, either actual or at some initial stage of derivation, of the affix it replaces. |