[f. SUBORDINATE a.: see -ACY.] The state of being subordinate; subordination.

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1627.  Speed, England, xxviii. § 5. In ackn[o]wledgement of subordinacie in that part of absolute power.

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1673.  Temple, Ess. Irel., in Misc. (1680), 102. This subordinacy [ed. 1709 subordinancy] in the Government, and emulation of parties.

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1711.  Shaftesb., Charac. (1737), II. II. 98. To have … Self-Affections too strong, or beyond their degree of subordinacy to the kindly and natural.

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1820.  T. L. Peacock, Misc., Wks. 1875, III. 337. The subordinacy of the ornamental to the useful.

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1891.  Temple Bar, Feb., 252. Her comparative subordinacy.

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1893.  Advance (Chicago), 9 March. Lifted out of subordinacy into supremacy.

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