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Definition
to force into submission — in various senses such as:
- when a people are defeated in battle and oppressed
- when someone treats their own feelings as less important than other considerations
- Such was the sympathy of Nature—that wild, heathen Nature of the forest, never subjugated by human law, nor illumined by higher truth—with the bliss of these two spirits!Chapter 18 -- A Flood of Sunshine (65% in)
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