Submissiveness love

Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at submissiveness.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Submissiveness.

Examples

  • Submissiveness to the prescriptions of men as necessities of nature is the lesson inculcated by all governments upon those who are wholly without participation in them.

    Representative Government 2002

  • Submissiveness would dissipate itself in self-indulgent ways, and the individual would find himself constructing a picture of the human world which rested on self-examination, made falsely objective by studying a mirror image.

    A Renegade Psychiatrist's Story Rosenfels, Paul 1979

  • Submissiveness is a desirable grace and one that will strew your pathway with peace.

    How to Live a Holy Life Charles Ebert Orr 1897

  • Submissiveness, clinging affection, humility, all the traits accounted distinctively feminine, and the natural and ever-increasing result of steady suppression of all stronger ones stood in the way of any resistance.

    Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future Helen Campbell 1878

  • "Submit" is the term used of wives: "obey," of children (Eph 6: 1), as there is a greater equality between wives and husbands, than between children and parents. as unto the Lord -- Submissiveness is rendered by the wife to the husband under the eye of Christ, and so is rendered to Christ Himself.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Submissiveness to the prescriptions of men as necessities of nature is the lesson inculcated by all governments upon those who are wholly without participation in them.

    Considerations on Representative Government John Stuart Mill 1839

  • Submissiveness is an indicator of the subordinate's reproductive capacity, at least in male N. pulcher [44].

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • (A) Discomfiture (B) Frustration (C) Submissiveness

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows tkjainbkn 2010

  • (A) Discomfiture (B) Frustration (C) Submissiveness

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2010

  • Michael Parsons on Slavery and the New Testament Equality and Submissiveness

    BiblicalStudies.org.uk 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.