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submiss

submiss adjective: submissive.

Adjective

submiss (comparative more submiss, superlative most submiss)

  1. (obsolete) Submissive.
    • But to such as are judicious, meek, submiss, and quiet, these matters are easily remedied […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section...
    • [S]till by the maid / Love went submiss, with eye more dangerous / Than fancied basilisk to wound whoe'er / Too bold approached, […]1796, Robert Southey, “Book the Ninth”, in Joan of Arc, an Epic Poem, Bristol: […] Bulgin and Rosser, for Joseph Cottle, […], and Cadell and Davies, and G. G. and J. Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 362...

Forms of submiss

comparativemore submiss
superlativemost submiss

Origin of submiss

From Latin submissus.

Words formed from submiss

Questions about submiss

What does submiss mean?
Submiss means submissive.
What part of speech is submiss?
Submiss is an adjective.

Words near submiss in the dictionary

  1. subminorities
  2. subminority
  3. submirror
  4. submirrors
  5. submise
  6. submiss
  7. submissible
  8. submissile
  9. submissiles
  10. submission
  11. submissionism

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