submissive
adjective
inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient.
unsubmissiveness
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a word derived from
submissive.
Example Sentences
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The elder Mrs. Gano could have put up with these crude evidences of a share in the family bias, but not with her granddaughter's growing unsubmissiveness, her chronic mutiny against the smallest restraint.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth
