Search for crossword answers and clues
Usually surrendering power to another
Answer for the clue "Usually surrendering power to another ", 10 letters:
submission
Alternative clues for the word submission
Word definitions for submission in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Submission \Sub*mis"sion\, n. [L. submissio a letting down, lowering: cf. F. soumission.] The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Submission is a 2004 English-language Dutch short drama film produced and directed by Theo van Gogh , and written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (a former member of the Dutch House of Representatives for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy ); it was shown ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition); "several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"; "what was the date of submission ...
Usage examples of submission.
When even excommunication failed to make him yield and church bells had been silenced in important sees, the clergy in extremity had summoned Bernard from Clairvaux to bring the culprit to submission.
Foot delivered the terrible news at such numbing length and so laden down with homiletical baggage as to beat his auditors into submission before the essential point of what he was saying had even penetrated their minds.
When he had forced them to stop and she had made him the soup as an act of submission, giving him such a hard-on he had been forced to masturbate virtually in front of her.
Kyle Morraine was also the weakest, more easy to frighten into submission.
Of all our passions and appetites, the love of power is of the most imperious and unsociable nature, since the pride of one man requires the submission of the multitude.
Petronas, and yield your hair in token of submission to Phos, the Lord with the great and good mind.
It is, however, more than evident, you cannot force them, principled and united as they are, to your unworthy terms of submission.
Nevertheless the prolocutor made a full submission, with which the archbishop was satisfied, and the sentence was repealed.
That he would chase her down and beat her into submission with his quizzing glass?
To any dependent intelligence blessed with our human susceptibilities, reverential love and submission are as obligatory, natural, and becoming on the brink of annihilation as on the verge of immortality.
It might please pessimists to believe that England would be cowed into submission by air-raids, but the most inveterate scaremongers hesitated to assert that armies with their indispensable artillery and equipment could be dropped on British soil from the skies.
They afterwards renewed this submission in the most formal manner, by subscribing articles, by which they obliged themselves, and the people they represented, to repair in the spring to Bay Verte, with all their effects and shipping, to be disposed of according to the direction of colonel Laurence, governor of Halifax, in Nova-Scotia.
He led the televangelist out of the rain, into the shelter of an abandoned storefront on a sidestreet off Submission.
King of the Unblessed, but to a man starved for the arms of a woman, for contact beyond that of fearful submission.
For he had written that essay for submission to a contest sponsored by some prestigious learned society and had won, receiving thereby a valuable scholarship that had underwritten his college tuition.