unsubjectedadj.
(un- prefix1 2.)
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [adjective] > not subordinate or subject > not subdued or subjected
unsubjected1513
unthirled1533
unbent1697
unsubjugated1837
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Heb. ii. 8 In that thing that he sugetide alle thingis to him, he lefte no thing vnsuget [v.r. vnsugetted] to him.]
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. vii. 67 All cuntre wnsubiekyt wnder our wand.
1693 tr. J. Le Clerc Mem. Count Teckely iii. 83 There remain'd nothing but Mongats unsubjected to the Emperor.
1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 252 This shews them..the utter Inconsistency of that Principle (to use their own Word) of an Un-subjected Light within, to all Rule, Order, or Good Government.
1758 M. Akenside Ode to Gentlemen Eng. x Shall war's heroic arts no more engage The unbought hand, the unsubjected mind?
1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Piccolomini i. xii. 62 A new army Unsubjected to my controul.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. i. 10 Wild beasts..who, if unsubjected by his arts, would..have torn him [sc. the keeper] to pieces.
1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More I. 269 The unsubjected natives..recovered the greater part of their country.
Derivatives
unsubˈjectedness n.
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1682 W. Penn Epist. Salutation Faithful Friends 5 Such as these,..by a loose Conversation, or Highmindedness and Unsubjectedness cause grief.
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