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Subordinating   /səbˈɔrdənˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Subordinating

adjective
1.
Serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause.  Synonym: subordinative.



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"Subordinating" Quotes from Famous Books



... for his silence on the bench. The older he grew the shorter became his charges; nor were there wanting those who declared that his conduct in this respect was intended as a reproach to some who are desirous of adorning the bench by their eloquence. To sit there listening to everything, and subordinating himself to others till his interposition was necessary, was his idea of a judge's duty. But when the law had declared itself, he was always strong in supporting the law. A man condemned for murder ought to be hanged,—so thought Judge ...
— John Caldigate • Anthony Trollope

... his mother dissuaded him from his intentions. But the fragments on which the statement is based are as likely as not spurious; and Cornelia's fortitude after she had lost both her sons would hardly have been shown by one capable of subordinating public ...
— The Gracchi Marius and Sulla - Epochs Of Ancient History • A.H. Beesley



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