unsubmitting
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a word derived from
submit.
submitverb (used with object)to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
Example Sentences
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Discomfited but unsubmitting, the Graphic publishd an editorial.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The valor too and unsubmitting spirit of subjects only render them more obnoxious to their masters; while remoteness and secrecy of situation itself, in proportion as it conduces to security, tends to inspire suspicion.
From The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus
Too well the sad result my soul divined, Too well I knew the unsubmitting mind Of Sophonisba would prefer the tomb To stern captivity's ignoble doom.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
His determination, on his own account, to carry on the war against the enemy in the mountains, till they or himself were expelled from the country, denotes the unsubmitting patriot.
From The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms
The king of England too had experienced the high spirit and unsubmitting temper of Lewis.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. by David Hume