subjugation
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Etymology[edit]
From New Latin subiugatio, from Latin subiugare (“to subiugate”); see subjugate.
Noun[edit]
subjugation (countable and uncountable, plural subjugations)
- The act of subjugating.
- The state of being subjugated; forced control by others.
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2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, page 164:
- Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
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Translations[edit]
act of subjugating
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state of being subjugated
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Further reading[edit]
- subjugation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- subjugation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
