submissiveness

[Eng. submi ive; -ne .] 1. The quality or state of being submi ive; a submi ive temper or disposition. IMG:content-0489.png:[blocks in formation] *sub-něct', v. t. [Lat. subnecto , from sub =under, and nec to =to bind, to the. To tie or fasten underneath. *sub-něx, v . t. [Lat. subnerus , pa. par. of sub nec to to subnect (q. v.).] To subjoin, to add. "He subnexeth, as touching evil things, these words." "Some time he spent in speech; and then began Submi ely prayer to the name of Pan." Browne: Britannias Pastorals , ii. 5. *sub-mi -ne , *sub-mi e-ne e, s. [Eng. submi ; -ne .] Submi ivene , humility, sub- mi ion, obedience. "I honor your names and persons, and with all sub- mi ene e, prostrate my selfe to your censure and serv- ice." Burton: Anat. Melancholy, p. 140. A. Transitive : *1. To let down; to lower; to cause to sink. "Sometimes the hill submits itself a while In small descents, which do its height beguile." Dryden: To Lord Chancellor Clarendon, 139. *2. To put or place under. ( Chapman . ) 3. To yield, resign, or surrender to the power, control, or will of another. (Used reflexively.) "Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands." Ephesians v. 22. 4. To place under the control of another; to surrender, to subject, to resign. "I submit my fancy to your eyes." Shakesp.: All's Well, ii. 3. 5. To leave, commit, or refer to the discretion, judgment, or decision of another; as, to submit a question to the court. B. Intransitive : 1. To yield one's person to the power, will, or control of another; to surrender. "And courage never to submit or yield." Milton: P. L., i. 108. 2. To be subject, to yield; to acquiesce in or acknowledge the authority of another. "About twenty-nine thirtieths of the profe ion sub mitted to the law."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng . , ch. xiv. 3. To yield one's opinion to the opinion or authority of another; to give way in an argument. 4. To be submi ive; to yield without murmuring. "No, quoth I, not if he willing lye retourned to the churche knowledging his fault, & ready to abiure all heresies, and penitently submitted himself to penaunce." -Sir T. More: Workes, p. 214.