subduement
nounEtymology From subdue + -ment.
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Obsolete subdual; act of subduing
- As hot as Perseus , spur thy Phrygian steed , Despising many forfeits and subduementsc. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]: