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Meaning of superordination | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor.
  2. The relation of a universal proposition to a particular proposition in the same terms.

Equivalents

Français superordination

Examples

“that the infant church might not be orphan an hour , lest satan should assault the breach of such a vacancy , to the disadvantage of religion . Such a super-ordination in such cases was canonicalñ it being a tradition”

CEFR level

C2
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