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subjection

 noun
     
sub‧jec‧tion [uncountable] formal
when a person or a group of people are controlled by a government or by another person
in subjection
The government used brute force to keep people in subjection.
subjection to
a period of subjection to Assyrian rulers
the subjection of women
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