subjection.

Small ruling classes thus kept large populations in subjection.

A Quarter Century of Communications Development 1940

She could never hope to keep the whole of Europe in subjection.

The Difficulties of the Axis 1940

The armed cohorts of Rome held its distant provinces in subjection.

The British Empire and Islam 1923

Instead of adorning and pampering the body, he brought it under, and kept it in subjection.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

Those that were afflicted and trampled on are not only delivered, but set on high out of the reach of their troubles, above their enemies, and have dominion over those to whom they had been in subjection.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

It was a forest eighteen miles deep to the centre, and so full of fairies that the priests had to come to the edge and give mass every little while to keep them in any kind of subjection.

Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905