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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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
In those nations of antiquity, most celebrated for fortitude and heroism, their youth had never their haughty and unsubmitting neck bowed to the inglorious yoke of a pedagogue.
From Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin
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
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