re-subjectionn.

1620 Bp. J. Hall Honor Married Clergie i. iii. 14 This liberall Dispensation, from his holy Father of Rome, vpon the conditions of our re-subiection.

1655 R. Loveday tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Hymen's Præludia: 3rd Pt. iv. 284 The peoples aversion to the Parthian government..had furnish'd them with reasons to assure themselves the successe of a resubjection to the proper owner.

1757 Herald (1758) No. 14. I. 231 He.., from a re-subjection, had to apprehend encountering the severest indignation.

1815 Crit. Rev. Oct. 371 Who can still believe that another of its consequences was, the re-subjection of a whole people, with whom we had pretended to fight the battles of independence.

1899 T. S. Baldock Cromwell 361 One of the first matters considered in Parliament after the execution of the King was the re-subjection of Ireland.

1929 Pacific Affairs 2 275 The re-subjection of the already war-torn province of Shantung.

1982 S. Starski Class Struggle in Classless Poland ii. 19 The re-subjection of citizens to a state which acquired a much more important role than was the case in previous societies.

2005 J. Haslam Fitting Sentences ii. 77 The Fugitive Slave Law provides the basis for black people's re-subjection to the panoptic power of slavery.