The Only Use of
subjugate
in
The Scarlet Letter
- 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!†
p. 189.9subjugated = forced into submission
Definition:
to force into submission
in various senses, including:
- when a people are defeated in battle and oppressed -- as in "The Romans subjugated most of Europe."
- when something is treated as less important than something else -- as in "subjugate the desires of the individual to the desires of the state," or "subjugate instinct to reason"