submiss
Americanadjective
adjective
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docile; submissive
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soft in tone
Etymology
Origin of submiss
First recorded in 1560–70; from Latin submissus, past participle of submittere submit
Example Sentences
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So by the altar standeth she submiss And watchful, praying silent and intense To a strange-figured Goddess, to his sense Who knew but Aphrodité.
From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Probably his new allodial Ritter gentlemen were not the most submiss, when made hereditary?
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle
Nearer his presence Adam, though not awed, Yet with submiss approach and reverence meek, As to a superiour nature bowing low, Thus said.
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
So spake the patriarch of mankind; but Eve Persisted; yet submiss, though last, replied.
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
So spake the Patriarch of Mankinde, but Eve Persisted, yet submiss, though last, repli'd.
From The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton
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