Meaning & use
submiss
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submissive; yielding to the authority or will of another
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The servant stood submiss before his lord, awaiting orders.
In the old ballad, the knight is described as submiss to his queen's every wish.
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An archaic form of 'submissive,' rarely used outside older literature.
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