Subjection

n.	1.	The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. - Sir M. Hale.
	2.	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. Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands. - 1 Peter iii. 1. Because the subjection of the body to the will is by natural necessity, the subjection of the will unto God voluntary, we stand in need of direction after what sort our wills and desires may be rightly conformed to His. - Hooker.

Noun	1.	subjection - forced submission to control by others Synonyms: subjugation
	2.	subjection - the act of conquering Synonyms: conquering, conquest, subjugation

SUBJECTION. The obligation of one or more persons to act at the discretion, or according to the judgment and will of others.
     2. Subjection is either private or public. By the former is meant the subjection to the authority of private persons; as, of children to their parents, of apprentices to their masters, and the like. By the latter is understood the subjection to the authority of public persons. Rutherf. Inst. B. 2, c. 8.

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

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