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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
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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