a. 1653. [see UNSUBJECTION].
a. 1716. South, Serm. (1744), X. v. 154. A stubborn unsubmissive frame of spirit in men.
1849. Eastwick, Dry Leaves, 55. [He] would hardly brook a band of unsubmissive strangers so near his own throne.
1868. Lynch, Rivulet, CXXV. ii. The lord of quarrel … And unsubmissive will.
Hence Unsubmissiveness.
Also unsubmissively adv. (Webster, 1847).
1868. Pusey, Serm. Pharisaism, 7. Heresy, unbelief, misbelief, unsubmissiveness,… spring from pride.
