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Submissive

adjective

Inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination. "A submissive reply" , "Replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"

Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant. Synonyms: slavish, subservient. "A slavish yes-man to the party bosses" , "She has become submissive and subservient"

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"Submissive" Quotes from Famous Books

... we do not respect our children. We try to force them to follow us without regard to their special needs. We are overbearing with them, and above all, rude; and then we expect them to be submissive and well-behaved, knowing all the time how strong is their instinct of imitation and how touching their faith in and admiration of us. They will imitate us in any case. Let us treat them, therefore, with all the kindness which ...

— Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook • Maria Montessori

... girls, or perish in the attempt. How many do thus perish, or are helped to perish, we shall never know. A frail, delicate woman said to me one day, "Oh, I do hope the fashions will change before Sissy grows up, for I don't see how it will be possible for me to make her clothes." You observe her submissive, law-abiding spirit. The possibility of evading the law never even suggests itself. There is many a feeble mother of grown and growing "Sissys" to whom the spring or fall dressmaking appears like an avalanche ...

— A Domestic Problem • Abby Morton Diaz

... life's career, What griefs should bend, and what cheers uphold thee And what you had to accomplish here. His power wrought you What you transacted, And wisdom taught you That right you acted, If but you heard, from submissive choice, The great celestial ...

— The Angel of Death • Johan Olof Wallin

... effective; for early on the next day after, I saw a heavily loaded wagon come. The game-keepers had come back, the fishermen were submissive; we had game and fish enough ...

— The Physiology of Taste • Brillat Savarin

... forward, and taking me by the collar, led me out of my dungeon. He had a club in his hand, and assured me if I made any resistance, he would hit me on the head with it. Deeming it prudent to be submissive, I permitted him to conduct me to my chamber. The blinds were closed, and I saw that the room had been prepared for my reception. It afterwards came to my knowledge that my uncle positively refused to permit me to be confined in the cellar; and they had nailed ...

— Seek and Find - or The Adventures of a Smart Boy • Oliver Optic

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