| Subjection 1. (n.) The act of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. 2. (n.) The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government of another; a state of obedience or submissiveness; as, the safety of life, liberty, and property depends on our subjection to the laws. Thesaurus Entries acceptance, acquiescence, assent, back seat, complaisance, compliance, conquest, consent, deference, domination, enslavement, homage, humbleness, humbling, humiliation, humility, inferiority, juniority, kneeling, lowliness, minority, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance, obedience, obeisance, passiveness, passivity, resignation, resignedness, second fiddle, second string, secondariness, servility, subjugation, submission, submittal, subordinacy, subordination, subservience, supineness, third string, yielding |