Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to subordinate; causing, implying, or expressing subordination or dependence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence.
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- adjective Tending to
subordinate ; expressingsubordination . - adjective grammar Used to introduce a subordinate sentence.
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- adjective serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause
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Examples
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It is protective rather than subordinative, traditional and rooted rather than aggressive and despotic.
Wordsworth's 'The Haunted Tree' and the Sexual Politics of Landscape 2001
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But in the LXX, even when the former clause is introduced by a subordinative conjunction, kai still follows in the latter, e.g. -
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905
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The common relations between sentences indicated by conjunctions are coördinative, subordinative, adversative, concessive, and illative.
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Grammatically, _but_ may be regarded as a subordinative conjunction = 'unless (it had happened) that I was despatched': or, taking it in its original prepositional sense, we may regard it as governing the substantive clause, 'that ... guard.' ~quick command~: the adjective has the force of an adverb, quick commands being commands that are to be carried quickly. ~sovran~, supreme.
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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