All 5 Uses of
subjugate
in
Notes from the Underground
- PART II A Propos of the Wet Snow When from dark error's subjugation My words of passionate exhortation Had wrenched thy fainting spirit free; And writhing prone in thine affliction Thou didst recall with malediction The vice that had encompassed thee: And when thy slumbering conscience, fretting By recollection's torturing flame, Thou didst reveal the hideous setting Of thy life's current ere I came: When suddenly I saw thee sicken, And weeping, hide thine anguished face, Revolted,…†
Chpt 2.1
- He was a simple and devoted soul; but when he devoted himself to me entirely I began to hate him immediately and repulsed him--as though all I needed him for was to win a victory over him, to subjugate him and nothing else.†
Chpt 2.3
- But I could not subjugate all of them; my friend was not at all like them either, he was, in fact, a rare exception.†
Chpt 2.3 *
- I began it always with hatred and ended it with moral subjugation, and afterwards I never knew what to do with the subjugated object.†
Chpt 2.10
- I began it always with hatred and ended it with moral subjugation, and afterwards I never knew what to do with the subjugated object.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(subjugate) to force into submissionin 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"