[-ING2.] That submits or makes a submission.
1791. Kyd, Law of Awards, 238. Accounts … passed between both the submitting parties.
1805. Alex. Wilson, Poems & Lit. Prose (1876), II. 127. Butler’s iron-hearted crew Doomed to the flames the weak submitting few.
1878. J. Davidson, Inverurie, 51. Families the heads of which were able … to stand apart from the submitting majority.
Hence Submittingly adv., submissively.
1825. R. P. Ward, Tremaine, I. xxxvii. 300. ‘True,’ said Georgina, submittingly.
