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Submissiveness

noun
1.
The trait of being willing to yield to the will of another person or a superior force etc..





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"Submissiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... been stunned into submissiveness by what must have appeared to him to be an utterly hopeless situation. He had strained every muscle in his body to move a leg or a paw, but he was swathed as tightly as Rameses had ever been. But now, however, ...
— The Grizzly King • James Oliver Curwood
... and black pipes, and engines swinging vast burdens about, and moving wheels, are fearfully interesting and magnificent. They stand for all sorts of powers and forces; they frighten me by their strength and fierceness and submissiveness. But the land is awfully barren of beauty, and I doubt if that can be wholesome. It all fascinates me, it increases my pride, but it makes me unhappy too, because it excludes beauty so completely. Those ...
— Father Payne • Arthur Christopher Benson


Words linked to "Submissiveness" :   servility, passiveness, subservience, submissive, subordination, passivity, obsequiousness, obedience


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