Read full poem →Their scepters stretcht from East to Westerne shore,
And all the world in their subjection held;
Till that infernall feend with foule uprore
Dictionary Entry
The act of bringing something under the control of something else.
In a Sentence
“The subjection of the smaller country to the larger empire lasted for decades.”
Origin
From Latin subiectio, from subicere ‘to throw under’.
Common Phrases
. subjectionunder subjectionsubjection undersubjection complete
Synonyms
Poetry examples for “subjection”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Simple, and further from corruption?
Why brook'st thou, ignorant horse, subjection?
Why dost thou, bull, and bore so seelily,
Read full poem →Simple, and further from corruption?
Why brook'st thou, ignorant horse, subjection?
Why dost thou, bull, and bore so seelily,
Read full poem →Awed by that house, accustomed to command,
The sturdy kerns in due subjection stand,
Nor bear the reins in any foreign hand.
Read full poem →They'll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed
Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died,--
Their dreams that drip with murder; and they'll be proud
Read full poem →‘6. Thou shalt receive, as a token of our subjection to thee, year by
year, what thou shalt think fit to lay and levy upon us in token of our
Read full poem →Who, when the frantic crowd amain
Strain'd at subjection's bursting rein,
O'er their wild mood full conquest gain'd,