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subjugation|sʌbdʒəˈgeɪʃən|
[ad. late L. subjugātio, -ōnem, n. of action f. subjugāre to subjugate. Cf. F. subjugation.]
1. The action of subjugating or condition of being subjugated; the bringing of a country or nation under the yoke of a conquering power.
1658Phillips. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. iv. 160 This was the condition of Greece the Learned Part of the World after their subjugation by the Turks. a1806Horsley Serm. viii. (1812) I. 143 The subjugation of nations, by the prosecution of this war. 1825Scott Talism. vii, The English fighting for the subjugation of Scotland, and the Scottish..for the defence of their independence. 1883H. Wace Gospel & Witn. iv. 74 The craving of the Jews for their temporal deliverance from subjugation to a heathen power. 1910Encycl. Brit. (ed. 11) VI. 965/1 ‘There is subjugation’, says Rivier.., ‘when a war is terminated by the complete defeat of one of the belligerents, so that all his territory is taken..and he ceases..to exist as a state.’
2. transf. and fig. Intellectual or moral subjection; reduction to a state of subserviency or submission; occas. the action of subduing (the soil).
1785Paley Mor. Philos. vi. ii. 406 The almost universal subjugation of strength to weakness. 1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps vii. §2. 184 Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation. 1856Kane Arctic Expl. II. App. 305 The..exertions of Dr. J. J. Hayes..kept the scurvy in complete subjugation. 1858B. Taylor Northern Trav. 307 The subjugation of virgin soil..is a serious work. 1871Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 224 The essence of morality is the subjugation of nature in obedience to social needs. |