单词 | subduement |
释义 | subduementn. = subduing n.Regarded by Johnson (1755) as ‘a word not used, nor worthy to be used’. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [noun] subduingc1450 subjugationa1456 subdue1483 subjecting1585 overwielding1597 subordinatinga1600 yoking1602 vassalizing1607 subduement1609 captivating1623 subdual1641 envassaling1642 envassalage1652 subjuging1660 subduction1670 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. vii. 71 I haue seene thee..Despising many forfaits and subduments . View more context for this quotation a1619 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 81 Hee sent a solemne Ambassage to Pope Adrian, to craue leaue for the subdument of that Country. ?1764 ‘Z. Zeal’ Seasonable Alarm London 20 Signs of the Subduement of England. 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. vii. 325 Anglo-Saxon..on the subduement of the Romanized Ottadini, succeeded to the British tongue. 1860 J. Forster Deb. Grand Remonstr. 89 That subduement of the Roman Catholic power on the continent. 1937 Amer. Anthropologist 39 386 The subduement of Indogermanized regions occurred in widely separated periods. 1981 Man 16 435 Differentiation of social networks..entailed a gradual subduement and ‘refinement’ of feelings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1609 |
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