Subordination dictionary definition | subordination defined

Hence the strength with which a champion of the faith like Anselm insists on the subordination of reason.
"To endure war is the most difficult subordination of man's freedom to the law of God," the voice had said.
It contains in fact nothing more questionable than an attempted deduction of the orthodox Nicene doctrine, unpalatable, however, to Edwards's immediate disciples, who were too little speculative to appreciate his statement of the subordination of the " persons " in the divine " oeconomy," and who openly derided the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son as " eternal nonsense "; and this perhaps was the original reason why the essay was not published.
But the relation of subordination of one state to another was generally expressed in terms of feudal law.
A common problem has been how to reduce a state to submission or subordination while ostensibly preserving its independence or existence; to obtain power while escaping responsibility and the expenditure attending the establishment of a regular administration.

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