It's not true that equality is a law of nature; nature makes nothing equal - her sovereign laws are subordination and dependence.
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Subordination
/səˌbɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/
Synonyms for "subordination" (63 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Noun(6 words)
Strong matches (19)
Related words (31)
satellite statusscreeningsecond fiddlesecond stringsecondarinessselectionsequenceserial orderserviceservilityservitorshipsiftingsortingsorting outsubjecthoodsubjectionsubordinacysubordinate rolesubserviencesubserviency
Noun(6 words)
Verb(2 words)
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13 entriesdependancedependencedependencydominationgrammar conceptgrammatical relationhierarchylinguistic relationpower structuresemantic relationsocial ordersubmissivenesssyntactic relation
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7 entriesCollocations
5 entriesclause dependencydependent clausegrammatical subordinationsubordinate clausesubordination relationship
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1 entriesDerivations
5 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
It is false that equality is a law of nature. Nature makes nothing equal, her sovereign law is subordination and dependence.
Source: tatoeba (735327)
I will not tolerate such subordination.
Source: tatoeba (5366801)
Sound logic, as the habitual subordination of the individual to the species, and of the species to the genus […]
Source: wiktionary