Crossword clues for submissiveness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Submissive \Sub*mis"sive\, a.
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Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.
Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking.
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Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor.
With a submissive step I hasted down.
--Prior.Syn: Obedient; compliant; yielding; obsequious; subservient; humble; modest; passive. [1913 Webster] -- Sub*mis"sive*ly, adv. -- Sub*mis"sive*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being submissive.
WordNet
n. the trait of being willing to yield to the will of another person or a superior force etc.
Usage examples of "submissiveness".
She admitted, elliptically, that she tried to "hustle" Gail Curtiz--validating her dyke submissiveness as good old American fortune hunting.
Her genotype had been selected and shaped for physical attractiveness, and for as much in the way of libidinal energy and submissiveness as Mesa's gengineers could pinpoint in the genetic code.
Her genotype had been selected and shaped for physical attractiveness, and for as much in the way of libidinal energy and submissiveness as Mesas gengineers could pinpoint in the genetic code.
On the 9th of Thermidor, the daily trot of the multitude in quest of food has lasted uninterruptedly for seventeen months, accompanied with outrages of the worst kind because there is less terror and less submissiveness, with more obstinacy because provisions at free sale are dearer, with greater privation because the ration distributed is smaller, and with more sombre despair because each household, having consumed its stores, has nothing of its own to make up for the insufficiencies of public charity.