[f. SUBALTERN + -ITY. Cf. F. subalternité.] Subordinate position.
1620. T. Granger, Div. Logike, 178. Which respecteth not suppartitions, anatomical diuisions, or subalternities of members.
1773. H. Walpole, Lett. to Mann, 4 Nov. I am sure I have none of the symptoms but the age and the subalternity.
1831. Southey, in Q. Rev., XLV. 443. Christianity, they say, has raised the sex from servitude, but has condemned them to subalternity.
1850. trans. Mazzini’s Royalty & Republ., Pref. 8. Redeeming by brilliant personal qualities the vice of subalternity, to which his position condemned him.
