submissive

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SUBMISS'IVE, adjective Yielding to the will or power of another; obedient. 1. Humble; acknowledging one's inferiority; testifying one's submission. Her at his feet submissive in distress, He thus with peaceful words uprais'd.
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