Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not subject; not liable.

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Examples

  • An avatar is unsubject to the universal economy; his pure body, visible as a light image, is free from any debt to nature.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935

  • An avatar is unsubject to the universal economy; his pure body, visible as a light image, is free from any debt to nature.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922

  • For in subjecting all things to him, he has left nothing unsubject to him.

    The Holy Bible: Darby Translation Anonymous 1867

  • As all along where the pine tree falls, its dissolution leaves a mossy mound -- last-flung shadow of the perished trunk; never lengthening, never lessening; unsubject to the fleet falsities of the sun; shade immutable, and true gauge which cometh by prostration -- so westward from what seems the stump, one steadfast spear of lichened ruin veins the plain.

    The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855

  • To him, it is the right of a man to be a man, and not a brute; the right to call the wife of his bosom is wife, and to protect her from lawless violence; the right to protect and educate his child; the right to have a home of his own, a religion of his own, a character of his own, unsubject to the will of another.

    Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

  • To him, it is the right of a man to be a man, and not a brute; the right to call the wife of his bosom is wife, and to protect her from lawless violence; the right to protect and educate his child; the right to have a home of his own, a religion of his own, a character of his own, unsubject to the will of another.

    Uncle Tom's cabin, or Life among the lowly 1852

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