All 9 Uses of
subordinate
in
The Idiot
- Those might come in as subordinate accessories—a sort of mist.†
Chpt 1.5
- Nina Alexandrovna gave them up long ago, but I keep in touch with them still...I may say I find refreshment in this little coterie, in thus meeting my old acquaintances and subordinates, who worship me still, in spite of all.†
Chpt 1.12 *
- No...I wish...to visit Madame Terentieff, the widow of Captain Terentieff, my old subordinate and friend.†
Chpt 1.12
- Two years ago, on Easter Eve, His Excellency Nil Alexeyovitch, whose subordinate I was then, wished to hear what I had to say, and sent a message by Peter Zakkaritch to ask me to go to his private room.†
Chpt 2.2
- Our subject was an infant in arms when he lost his father, an officer who died just as he was about to be court-martialled for gambling away the funds of his company, and perhaps also for flogging a subordinate to excess (remember the good old days, gentlemen).†
Chpt 2.8
- He never squandered the funds of his company nor ill-treated his subordinates, I am absolutely certain of it; I cannot imagine how you could bring yourself to write such a calumny!†
Chpt 2.8
- This blind, dumb, implacable, eternal, unreasoning force is well shown in the picture, and the absolute subordination of all men and things to it is so well expressed that the idea unconsciously arises in the mind of anyone who looks at it.†
Chpt 3.6
- This ghost had humiliated me;—nor could I bear to be subordinate to that dark, horrible force which was embodied in the form of the loathsome insect.†
Chpt 3.6
- In my opinion the Roman Catholic religion is not a faith at all, but simply a continuation of the Roman Empire, and everything is subordinated to this idea—beginning with faith.†
Chpt 4.7
Definition:
less important or subservient; or to rank as such