subjugation
English
editEtymology
editFromNew Latinsubiugātiō, fromLatinsubiugō(“to subjugate”). Bysurface analysis,subjugate +-ion.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation)IPA(key):/ˌsʌbd͡ʒʊˈɡeɪʃən/
Audio(Southern England): (file) - (General American)IPA(key):/ˌsʌbd͡ʒəˈɡeɪʃən/
- Rhymes:-eɪʃən
- Hyphenation:sub‧ju‧ga‧tion
Noun
editsubjugation (countable anduncountable,pluralsubjugations)
- The act ofsubjugating.
- The state of being subjugated; forced control by others.
- 2012 March-April,Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, inAmerican Scientist[1], volume100, number 2, page164:
- 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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editTranslations
editact of subjugating
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state of being subjugated
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Further reading
edit- “subjugation”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “subjugation”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
French
editPronunciation
editNoun
editsubjugation f (pluralsubjugations)
Further reading
edit- “subjugation”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.
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