submiss

American  

[suhb-mis] / səbˈmɪs /

adjective

Archaic.

1. submissive.

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submiss British  

/ səbˈmɪs /

adjective

1. docile; submissive

2. soft in tone

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Etymology

Origin of submiss

First recorded in 1560–70; from Latin submissus, past participle of submittere submit

Example Sentences

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submiss

The great works of past ages seem to a young man things of another race, in respect to which his faculties must remain passive and submiss, even as to the stars and mountains.

From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

These existences, emanations, essences, what you will, are submiss, not to man, but to Nature.

From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Maurice Henry Hewlett

‘With your Highness’s permission,’ he said, ‘and laying at his feet my most submiss apologies, I will now hasten to attend his further orders in the Chancery.’

From Prince Otto, a Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson

So spake the patriarch of mankind; but Eve Persisted; yet submiss, though last, replied.

From Paradise Lost by John Milton

Omrahs about him crowd,   And rein the Arabian steed, and watch his nod: _330   And potent Rajahs, who themselves preside   O'er realms of wide extent; but here submiss   Their homage pay, alternate kings and slaves.

From The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations, by the Rev. George Gilfillan by