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subˈmissiveness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being submissive.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xix. 714 We seeke rather by violence to extort, then by submissiuenes to beg his pardon. 1679Dryden Troil. & Cress. Pref. b 2, With all the submissiveness he can practice, & all the calmness of a reasonable man. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) I. 125 The pope's knowledge of the personal submissiveness to ecclesiastical power. 1863Kinglake Crimea (ed. 3) II. xii. 185 They approached him respectfully, but without submissiveness. 1890F. W. Robinson Very strange Fam. 74 In all submissiveness [he] owned how deplorably wrong he had been. |
