submissiveness

• But his strength must be kept in reserve, and if he err on either side of this particular line, submissiveness should be his characteristic. —  The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
• In her recently acquired submissiveness, the disobeying of Miss Eliza to stay out in a rain seemed to have no attraction But the storm broke with such quickness and fury, that Arethusa got no farther towards the house than a big oak a few yards away from the Hollow Tree. —  The Heart of Arethusa
• He would not have been surprised if the boy had disappeared, and given him trouble to find him, and his unexpected submissiveness was an agreeable surprise Well, boy, it's time to be goin'. —  The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus
• For this people are most well-disposed towards obedience and submissiveness, and, on receiving such instruction, they conformed their conduct and behavior thereto. —  A Traveler’s Narrative
• My illness kept pace with my want; and as poverty bears down honour, drives some to the gallows, some to the hospital, and makes others enter their enemies' doors with cringing submissiveness, which is one of the greatest miseries that can befall an unlucky man; that I might not expend upon my cure the clothes that should cover me respectably in health, I entered the Hospital of the Resurrection, where I took forty sudations. —  The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes

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