subjecthoodn.

1856 L. S. Lavenu Erlesmere I. xxiii. 231 He and you are members of the human family, and subject to its laws. We are not lawgivers but law-discoverers; and the utmost we can do is to fulfil our subjecthood.

1893 A. B. Bruce in Expositor 8 269 Creaturehood, or subjecthood, the original relation of man to God as Creator and Sovereign.

1927 C. C. Martindale Christ is King v. 93 The vast duty of our subjecthood almost narrows itself to this.

1968 Economist 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.

2000 Guardian 22 Apr. i. 16/1 We wallow in our subjecthood, unable to break free from an anything-but-United Kingdom.

1970 Language 46 447 To formulate an adequate rule of reflexivization.., it would be necessary to assign a sentence multiple syntactic representations in which the relations of constituency, subjecthood etc can differ.

1976 Classical Q. New Ser. 26 38 The ‘with’ idiom expresses not the idea of means, but rather that of subjecthood or even agency.

1979 Trans. 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.

1990 Contemp. Morphol. (Trends in Linguistics: Stud. & Monogr.) 49 vi. 289 The representation of syntactical structure is the business of the ‘relational’ concepts: indicating subject-hood and object-hood, status as modifier vs. modified, etc.

2005 L. A. Billings in A. Carnie et al. Verb First ii. 331 I am inclined to view subjecthood as a formal grammatical property in Tagalog.