arch. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] Submissiveness, submission.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. ii. III. xv. With all submissenes [I] prostrate my self to your censure and service.
1649. Milton, Eikon., xi. 104. Whether it were his envy, not to be over-bounteous, or that the submissness of our asking stirr’d up in him a certain pleasure of denying.
1664. Butler, Hud., II. iii. 493. Whachum advanc’d with all submissness, T’accost ’em, but much more, their bus’ness.
