Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The ordination of a person to fill an office still occupied, as the ordination by an ecclesiastic of one to fill his office when it shall become vacant by his own death or otherwise.
- noun In logic, the relation of a universal proposition to a particular proposition in the same terms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor.
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- noun The
ordination of a person to fill astation already occupied; especially, the ordination by anecclesiastical official , during his lifetime, of hissuccessor .
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- noun the semantic relation of being superordinate or belonging to a higher rank or class
Etymologies
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Examples
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In one very crucial area of activity the revisionist superordination of praxis to theory had triumphed officially.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas J. P. NETTL 1968
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Neither love nor the division of labor, neither the common attitude of two toward a third nor friendship, neither party affiliation nor superordination of subordination is likely by itself alone to produce or permanently sustain an actual group.
Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956
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THE DISCUSSION up to this point has shown numerous regularities among parties to a conflict—mixtures of antithesis and synthesis, superordination of one over the other, mutual restrictions as well as intensifications.
Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956
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Neither love nor the division of labor, neither the common attitude of two toward a third nor friendship, neither party affiliation nor superordination of subordination is likely by itself alone to produce or permanently sustain an actual group.
Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956
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THE DISCUSSION up to this point has shown numerous regularities among parties to a conflict—mixtures of antithesis and synthesis, superordination of one over the other, mutual restrictions as well as intensifications.
Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956
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THE DISCUSSION up to this point has shown numerous regularities among parties to a conflict—mixtures of antithesis and synthesis, superordination of one over the other, mutual restrictions as well as intensifications.
Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956
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Neither love nor the division of labor, neither the common attitude of two toward a third nor friendship, neither party affiliation nor superordination of subordination is likely by itself alone to produce or permanently sustain an actual group.
Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956
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_See_ Collective behavior, Social control, Suggestion, Subordination and superordination.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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Simmel in his interesting discussion of the subject points out the fact that the relations of subordination and superordination are reciprocal.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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The wish for security may be represented by position, mere immobility; the wish for new experience by the greatest possible freedom of movement and constant change of position; the wish for response, by the number and closeness of points of contact; the wish for recognition, by the level desired or reached in the vertical plane of superordination and subordination.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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