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UK
/səbmˈɪsɪvnəs/
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NOUN
- the trait of being willing to yield to the will of another person or a superior force etc.
How To Use submissiveness In A Sentence
- And in their zeal and submissiveness they are so innocently meek and "biddable" that they can listen with reverence to young Hyrum Smith publicly lecturing the grandmothers of the order for occasionally partaking of a cup of thin tea. Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft
- And that means, even allowing for the craven submissiveness of the general media, one more chance for the administration to be exposed for the cruel and psychopathic clods that they are.
- submissiveness" following the crushing defeat of their chosen national leaders. The Register
- The republicans, in their submissiveness and spinelessness, were trying to impress the media and all the idiots who voted for Obama with their willingness to PANDER for votes like the democrats. Gingrich blames 'elite media' for Steele questions
- That sword tormented him beyond measure, brought him an intolerable horror of suffering in woman, the very thought of which scattered his pious submissiveness to the winds. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
- Despite being commonly held up as a paragon of the submissiveness, obedience, and loyalty that many men would like to see in their wives, women have often taken other lessons from her behaviour.
- You may be plagued with indecisiveness or revert to emotional "default" positions forged during childhood, such as submissiveness, rebellion or self-undermining behavior. Douglas LaBier: An Inside-Out Life: Protection From the Growing Backlash -- Part 1
- The modulation from aggrieved femininity to fawning submissiveness in her wooing is masterfully handled.
- True womanhood emphasized the qualities of piety, purity, maternity, submissiveness, virtue, and domesticity.
- Of course there exist caricatures of a misguided humility and a mistaken submissiveness, which we do not want to imitate. Chrism Mass in Rome [Update]