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submission
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Word definitions for submission in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cowed into submission ▪ The protesters had been cowed into submission by the police. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE written ▪ The Committee has made its written submissions and will be making oral representations ...
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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Submission ( Swedish : Underkastelsen ) is a 2010 Swedish documentary film directed by Stefan Jarl and narrated by Stellan Skarsgård . In the film, director Jarl has his blood drawn for a series of tests to show how much of a "chemical burden" is in his ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "act of referring to a third party for judgment or decision," from Old French submission or directly from Latin submissionem (nominative submissio ) "a lowering, letting down; sinking," noun of action from past participle stem of submittere "to ...
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.