rare. [-NESS.] The quality or state of being subordinate; subordination.
1634. Bp. Hall, Contempl., N. T., IV. v. 126. The subordinatenesse of the creature doth not take away from the right … of the first mover.
a. 1706. Evelyn, Hist. Relig. (1850), I. 51. Who knows not that … the subordinateness of the parts of Nature is not more astonishing than the subordinateness of thought and affections in the soul?
1871. Mozley, Univ. Serm., v. (1877), 112. That freedom from all subordinateness to an authority above them.
