Submissively

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a submissive manner, with submission.

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c. 1590. Marlowe, Jew of Malta [IV.] 1790. Write not so submissiuely, but threatning him.

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1687. Dryden, Hind & P., II. 509. The whole hierarchy, with heads hung down, Submissively declin’d the pondrous proffer’d crown.

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1746. Hervey, Refl. Flower Garden (1818), 146. Under the heaviest tribulations most submissively patient.

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1838. Dickens, Nich. Nick., xiv. ‘Perhaps you are right, uncle,’ replied Mrs. Kenwigs submissively.

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1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. xxii. 153. He approached me submissively,… and declared his willingness to go on.

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