subordinacyn.

1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xxx. 57/2 On the one side stamping the face and stile of their Soueraigne, in acknowledgement of subordinacy in that part of absolute power.

1663 R. Manley tr. J. Schouten in tr. F. Caron & J. Schouten True Descr. Kingdoms Japan & Siam 146 A man may keep as many Concubins as he pleases, besides his Wife, though they are in some subordinacy to her.

?1673 W. Temple Ess. Advancement Trade Irel. 4 This subordinacy [1709 subordinancy] in the Government, and emulation of parties.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. iv. 98 To have..Self-Affections too strong, or beyond their degree of Subordinacy to the kindly and natural, is also miserable.

1782 Ld. Monboddo Antient Metaphysics II. iv. i. 180 The whole analogy of Nature, in every part of which we observe a wonderful union and subordinacy of things to one another.

1820 T. L. Peacock Four Ages of Poetry in Ollier's Literary Misc. No. 1 199 The subordinacy of the ornamental to the useful.

1893 Advance (Chicago) 9 Mar. Lifted out of subordinacy into supremacy.

1950 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 15 290/1 In dating and other paired relationships with men the college woman is required to adopt the inferiority and subordinacy of the more traditional feminine role.

1998 M. Barnard Art, Design & Visual Culture viii. 176 The positions of dominance and subordinacy are being contested.