subaltern

How To Use subaltern In A Sentence

• Thus natural science will be subalternate to mathematics, for even though mathematics is not the science of the higher form, of light, considered in itself, it does govern the way in which light realizes itself in space. Medieval Theories of Demonstration
• A new type of human being was rising up from its subaltern feudal origins and making its demands known.
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• Cadet_ (_during his first term at Osborne -- where he has been told always to salute his superior officers of both services -- meeting some "temporary" subalterns who disregard his salute_). Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 1, 1916
• As a young subaltern in the Royal Tank Regiment he was unafraid to put it to use.
• The subaltern with the eyeglass is a bad route-marcher, and Wankin once remarked in an audible whisper that the officer had learned his company drill with a drove of haltered pack-horses, and the officer bears the name of "Pack-horse" ever since. The Amateur Army
• One was, once again, the callow young subaltern, looking for somewhere to shave.
• Senga had asked if she could come as part of the entourage because she was interested in the history of the place, but I caught her chatting up a Royal Scots subaltern in impossibly tight trews.
• The subaltern was a lean young redhead from the north continent, his fair face spattered with gold freckles from the tropic sun. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
• Alan's regiment was an expensive one for a subaltern of those days, although military life in India was financially easier than elsewhere. DARE CALL IT TREASON