Submitting
[səb'mitɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Submit
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Examples
- Men will not go on submitting to such intolerable ugliness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I am waiting, however, with some anxiety, to hear the rational explanation of the difficulty which I have just had the honour of submitting to you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Miss Pross, submitting herself to his judgment, the scheme was worked out with care. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Later, James was forbidden to publish the paper without submitting to the supervision of the Secretary of the Province. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- All the while, the young man stood by, shamefaced and down-at-heel, submitting. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To die is also a joy, a joy of submitting to that which is greater than the known, namely, the pure unknown. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Dorothea, submitting uneasily to this discouragement, went with Celia into the library, which was her usual drawing-room. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I trust I give no offence to the companion of my youth, in submitting this proposition to his cooler judgement? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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