Now rare. [f. next: see -ENCY. Cf. med.L. succumbentīa failure in a cause.] A giving way or yielding; submission.
1653. R. G., trans. Bacon’s Hist. Winds, 371. The means and wayes of the succumbency and yieldings of Motions are carefully to be looked into.
1668. Howe, Bless. Righteous (1825), 258. Thy vile succumbency gives him the day and his will upon thee. Ibid. (1698), Serm. Duty Magistr., Wks. 1863, V. 396. A timorous fainting and succumbency.
1820. Foster, Ess. Evils Pop. Ignor., 163. This … unquestioning, unmurmuring, succumbency under the actual allotment.
