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sometimiento

submission

noun soh-meh-tee-MYEN-toh Rare
People & Society Politics

Also means

subjugation

Usage Note

Sometimiento denotes the act or state of submitting to an authority, rule, or power. It is a formal, often legal or political term. The related verb someter also generates someterse a (to undergo, as in someterse a una prueba), but sometimiento itself has a more coercive connotation.

Examples

"El sometimiento al régimen duró décadas."

Natural Translation

Submission to the regime lasted decades.

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