Definition of Submiss

1. a. Submissive; humble; obsequious.

Definition of Submiss

1. Adjective. (obsolete) Submissive. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Submiss

1. inclined to submit [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Submiss

submillimeter
submillimeter wave radiation
submillimetre
submillimetric
submillisecond
subminiature
subminimal
subminimum
subminister
subministered
subministerial
subministering
subministers
subministration
subministrations
submiss (current term)
submission
submissions
submissive
submissively
submissiveness
submissives
submissly
submissness
submit
submitochondrial
submits
submittable
submittal
submittals

Literary usage of Submiss

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Henry Stebbing, Richard Cattermole (1835)
"With how much more submiss and humble veneration, ought the methods of the Divine government to be beheld and adored, upon the certain assurance we have, ..."

2. A Dictionary of the English Language: Compiled for the Use of Common Schools by Noah Webster (1817)
"... to drown Submersion, n. the act of plunging submiss', submiss'ive, a. humble, ... obedience submiss'ively, ad. with submission, humbly submiss'iveness, ..."

3. Sketches and Studies in Southern Europe by John Addington Symonds (1880)
"... of all this thou seest Above, or round about thee, or beneath."—PZ, viii. 319. It is now seen that the word " submiss" belongs by the sense to the ..."

4. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, and by Joseph Bingham, Richard Bingham (1840)
"And sometimes every one of these three ways is used about the same subject: the submiss style, when any doctrine is delivered about it; the temperate style, ..."

5. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by John Oswald, Joseph Thomas, James Lynd, John Miller Keagy (1868)
"... n. remittance, n. remit'tal, n. remit'ted, a. remit'ment, n. sub-commit'tee, n. submiss', a. submiss'ly, ad. submiss'ness, n. submission, n. submissive, ..."

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