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

Soon at his high command   Rebuked, the disappointed, hungry pack   Retire submiss, and grumbling quit their prey.

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

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

Thus he; the white-arm'd Queen of Heav'n submiss His mandate heard; and from th' Idaean mount With rapid flight to high Olympus sped.

From The Iliad by Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of Derby

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

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