Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Unsubmissiveness; disobedience.
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Examples
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Prometheus has to do with a tyrant whom he despises, before whom therefore he endures with unbewailing unsubmission, upheld by the consciousness that he is fighting the battle of humanity against an all but all-powerful Selfishness: endurance is the only availing weapon against him, and he will endure to the ever-delayed end!
Unspoken Sermons Second Series 1824-1905 1885
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Prometheus has to do with a tyrant whom he despises, before whom therefore he endures with unbewailing unsubmission, upheld by the consciousness that he is fighting the battle of humanity against an all but all-powerful Selfishness: endurance is the only availing weapon against him, and he will endure to the ever-delayed end!
Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864
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