Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which subdues; one who conquers and brings into subjection; a conqueror; a tamer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, subdues; a conqueror.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
subdues .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion
Etymologies
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Examples
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And he was a man-subduer as well as a woman-subduer.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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And burning dawn now awakened beside me, and I got up on my elbow and acknowledged my conqueror, my subduer, and the room for taming me in.
burning dawn Jerry Ratch 2011
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I wish, that it does not demonstrate too evidently, that, with some of the sex, insolent controul is a more efficacious subduer than kindness or concession.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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One evening a "domidor" (a subduer of horses) came for the purpose of breaking-in some colts.
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One evening a "domidor" (a subduer of horses) came for the purpose of breaking-in some colts.
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It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love, -- this hunger of the heart, -- as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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"I proclaim the mighty exploits of that Indra who is ever victorious, the benefactor of man, the overthrower of man, the caster-down, the warrior, who is gratified by our libations, the grantor of desires, the subduer of enemies, the refuge of the people!"
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The absolute tyranny of the human will over a noble and powerful beast develops the instinct of personal prevalence and dominion; so that horse-subduer and hero were almost synonymous in simpler times, and are closely related still.
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So it is at least until they meet some one terrible subduer of woman -- a
The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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The tamer and subduer of monsters and tyrants, Hercules (vanquished by the snares of loue), did not he handle the distaffe in stead of his mightie mace?
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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