Verb (used with object) : to subordinate work to pleasure. ,to subordinate passion to reason. From Dictionary.com.
It is protective rather than subordinative, traditional and rooted rather than aggressive and despotic. From Wordnik.com. [Wordsworth's 'The Haunted Tree' and the Sexual Politics of Landscape] Reference
But in the LXX, even when the former clause is introduced by a subordinative conjunction, kai still follows in the latter, e.g. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of Septuagint Greek] Reference
The common relations between sentences indicated by conjunctions are coördinative, subordinative, adversative, concessive, and illative. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
Deliberation, expression of, 257, (in subordinative clause) 259. From Wordnik.com. [A Complete Grammar of Esperanto] Reference
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