rare. [f. SUBDUE v. + -MENT.] The action of subduing; subdual.

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‘A word not used, nor worthy to be used’ (J.).

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1606.  Shaks., Tr. & Cr., IV. v. 187. I haue seen thee … scorning forfeits and subduments.

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a. 1619.  Daniel, Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626), 81. Hee sent a solemne Ambassage to Pope Adrian, to craue leaue for the subdument of that Country.

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1807.  G. Chalmers, Caledonia, I. II. vii. 325. Anglo-Saxon … on the subduement of the Romanized Ottadini, succeeded to the British tongue.

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1860.  Forster, Gr. Remonstr., 89. That subduement of the Roman Catholic power on the continent.

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