subjugation

From New Latin subiugatio, from Latin subiugare (“to subiugate”); see subjugate.

subjugation (countable and uncountable, plural subjugations)

1. The act of subjugating.
2. The state of being subjugated; forced control by others.
   • 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, page 164:

     Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

• conquest

• subjugate

• subjugation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• subjugation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.