Submission
[səb'mɪʃ(ə)n] or [səb'mɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another.
(noun.) (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing.
(noun.) an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter.
(noun.) a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter.
(noun.) something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition); 'several of his submissions were rejected by publishers'; 'what was the date of submission of your proposal?'.
(noun.) the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else; 'the union was brought into submission'; 'his submission to the will of God'.
Typist: Patricia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance.
(n.) The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation.
(n.) Acknowledgement of a fault; confession of error.
(n.) An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators.
Checker: Patty
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Surrender, cession, yielding.[2]. Obedience, resignation, compliance, acquiescence, meekness, submissiveness, lowliness, humility, humiliation, self-abasement.[3]. Endurance, sufferance, long-sufferance, forbearance, fortitude.
Inputed by Gavin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Yielding, surrender, inferiority, dependence, meekness, resignation, patience,acquiescence
ANT:Resistance, insurrender, insubordination, independence, antagonism,self-assertion, impatience
Inputed by Glenda
Examples
- She begged my pardon with proper submission. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The voice of the submissive man who had spoken, was flat and tame in its extreme submission. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- This straightforward bullying was met by abject submission. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Space permits the submission of but a few observations and suggestions on these points:---- _Necessity_ is still the mother of inventions, but not of all of them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Often as not they disguise it under heroic phrases and still louder affirmation, just as most of us hide our cowardly submission to monotony under some word like duty, loyalty, conscience. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was the Manchus who obliged the Chinese to wear pig-tails as a mark of submission. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The common rule requires submission; and it is only in cases of grievous tyranny and oppression, that the exception can take place. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A letter of proper submission! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Father, returned Prince with great submission, I love this young lady, and we are engaged. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Nothing is more amusing than his complete submission when he has been once thoroughly beaten. Plato. The Republic.
- She answered in a low tone, with a sullen submission of manner which was quite new in my experience of her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He gave himself, in a strange, electric submission. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She had rejected these advances; and the time for such exuberant submission, which must be founded on love and nourished by it, was now passed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- These were found to be only to grant pardons upon submission. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Checked by Elton