Submissive; humble; obsequious. [Rarely used, and in poetry only.]
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1. Submissive; humble; obsequious.
2. Gentle; soft; calm; as, submiss voices.
1. The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another.
3. We English warriors wot not what it means.
5. In all submission and humility,
6. York doth present himself unto your highness.
7. Acknowledgment of a fault; confession or error.
8. Be not as extreme in submission as in offense.
9. Obedience; compliance with the commands or laws of a superior. submission of children to their parents is an indispensable duty.
10. Resignation; a yielding of one's will to the will or appointment of a superior without murmuring. Entire and cheerful submission to the will of God is a christian duty of prime excellence.
1. The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance.
2. The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation.
3. Acknowledgement of a fault; confession of error.
4. An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators.
1. Yielding to the will or power of another; obedient.
2. Humble; acknowledging one's inferiority; testifying one's submission.
3. Her at his feet submissive in distress,
4. He thus with peaceful words uprais'd.
1. Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.
1. With submission; with acknowledgment of inferiority; humbly.
2. The goddess,
3. Soft in her tone, submissively replies.
1. A submissive temper or disposition.
2. Humbleness; acknowledgment of inferiority.
3. Confession of fault.
In a submissive manner; with a submission.
Humbleness; obedience. [Little used.]
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1 KJV and 4 BSB verses contain “submiss”
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands,