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subordinacy|səˈbɔːdɪnəsɪ| [f. subordinate a.: see -acy.] The state of being subordinate; subordination.
1627Speed England xxviii. §5 In ackn[o]wledgement of subordinacie in that part of absolute power. 1673Temple Ess. Irel. in Misc. (1680) 102 This subordinacy [ed. 1709 subordinancy] in the Government, and emulation of parties. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) II. ii. 98 To have..Self-Affections too strong, or beyond their degree of subordinacy to the kindly and natural. 1820T. L. Peacock Misc. Wks. 1875 III. 337 The subordinacy of the ornamental to the useful. 1891Temple Bar Feb. 252 Her comparative subordinacy. 1893Advance (Chicago) 9 Mar., Lifted out of subordinacy into supremacy. |