submiss
[suh b-mis]
Origin of submiss
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Those entrusted with the power of office must also be the most obedient and submiss.
The History of AntiquityMax Duncker
For your interest or favour with him, you are to be the shorter or longer, more familiar or submiss, as he will afford you time.
Discoveries Made Upon Men and MatterBen Jonson
To such of the Canons as he came upon, his Majesty was most polite; they most submiss.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.)Thomas Carlyle
Probably his new allodial Ritter gentlemen were not the most submiss, when made hereditary?
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.)Thomas Carlyle
submiss
Word Origin for submiss
C16: from Latin submissus lowered, gentle, from submittere to reduce, from sub- + mittere to send
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