Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being subject; subjection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Quality of being subject.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
subject orsubordinate .
Etymologies
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subject + -ness
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Examples
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For Mabuchi, the study of ancient texts came to be implicated in a new project, the recovery of the form of subjectness that characterized the Japanese in ancient times.
The Kokugaku (Native Studies) School Burns, Susan 2007
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Of course, I can give it a verbal label: for instance, I can call it ˜subjectness™ or
Dualism Robinson, Howard 2007
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