heteronomous

How to use heteronomous in a sentence

• An heteronomous becoming is to be traced back to the becoming of the cause which produces it.

  The Reform of Education | Giovanni Gentile

• heteronomous: if two parts, compared with each other, are of different quality: differing in development or function.

  Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology | John. B. Smith

• heteronomous, het-er-on′o-mus, adj. differentiated from a common type: subject to the rule of another.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) | Various

• The military system is of necessity heteronomous, while democracy must be autonomous.

  A Jewish Chaplain in France | Lee J. Levinger