Frank

Dave, you asked an interesting question about “submission” and “subordination,” which I am not quite sure how to answer. I know that the first is usually understood as one “willingly deferring or yielding to another,” while the other is usually understood as one “willingly placing or ordering oneself under another,” and so are understood to be synonyms and so used interchangably in several articles I have read in the past. Until you brought it up, it did not occur to me that there might be a subtle difference in meaning between the two. So I’ll have to check my English dictionaries and thesaurus and see what I can find out. But, no, I don’t think you’re being pedantic.