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submission|səbˈmɪʃən|
Also 5 -myssion, -mycion, -missioun, 6 -myssyon.
[ad. OF. † submission or its source L. submissio, -ōnem (var. summ-), n. of action f. submittĕre to submit. Cf. F. soumission, It. sommessione, etc. (see summission).]
1. a. Law. Agreement to abide by a decision or to obey an authority; reference to the decision or judgement of a (third) party; in recent use spec., the referring of a matter to arbitration; in Sc. Law, a contract by which parties agree to submit disputed matters to arbitration; also, the document embodying such a contract.
1411Rolls of Parlt. III. 650/2 The forsaid Archebisshop, and Chamberleyn..by force of the submission that the said Robert in hem hath maad, haven ordeyned [etc.]. c1450Godstow Reg. 367 Next to this folowyth the Submyssion of the abbot and couent of Oseney to abide the ordeynyng. 1580Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. III. 278 The submissioun maid and aggreit upoun..anent materis questionabill betuix thame. 1587Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 472/1 Submissioun of the contraversie beuix the erle of angus and lord flemyng. 1628Sc. Acts Chas. I (1870) V. 189 The Submission made be the Lords of Erectiones Titulers Tacksmen and Gentrie Heretors of Lands To His Majestie anent their Superiorities and Teinds &c. 1697–8Act 9 Will. III c. 15 §2 Where the Rule is made for Submission to such Arbitration or Umpirage. 1765–8Erskine Inst. Law Scot. iv. iii. §29 Where the day within which the arbiters are to decide is left blank in the submission. 1854Act 17 & 18 Vict. c. 125 §17 Every Agreement or Submission to Arbitration by Consent..may be made a Rule of any One of the Superior Courts of Law. 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 312/2 A verbal submission..cannot be made a rule of court.
b. In wider use, the act of submitting a matter to a person for decision or consideration.
1911Concise Oxf. Dict. s.v., The submission of the signature to an expert. 1914Times 12 June 8/2 Amending Bill Drafted. Date of Submission to the Lords.
c. In legal use, a theory of a case put forward by an advocate. Cf. submit v. 7.
1922Westm. Gaz. 20 Dec. 7/1 In my submission..this woman was called by the police as the only corroboration which they produced. 1923Ibid. 4 Jan. 3/7 It was put to the Court that there should be no difference in the rates of wages for similar work in different localities,..but the Court could not uphold this submission. 1976Daily Tel. 20 July 3/2 In my submission it is nonsense.
2. a. The condition of being submissive, yielding, or deferential; submissive or deferential conduct, attitude, or bearing; deference; † occas. humiliation, abasement. arch.
c1449Pecock Repr. ii. x. 207 More deuocioun, and louȝer submissioun thei myȝten not neither couthen araie forto bisette vpon Crist him silf. 1539Tonstall Serm. Palm Sunday (1823) 17 The bowynge down of euery knee, is ment the submyssyon of all creatures to theyr maker. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 10 Luther..writeth to the Bishop of Rome letters full of submission. Ibid. 273 Moste humbly and with great submission. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, ii. ii. 52 Tell her, I returne great thankes, And in submission will attend on her. 1643Baker Chron. (1653) 234 A Son of such submission. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §110 He had not that..submission and reverence for the Queen as might have been expected. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 310 Subjection..by her..Yeilded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay. 1720Swift Fates of Clergymen Wks. 1755 II. ii. 23 This sort of discretion is usually attended with..servile flattery and submission. 1855Milman Lat. Christ. ix. ii. xiii. IV. 357 They met, Frederick with dignified submission, the Pope with the calm majesty of age and position.
b. pl. Acts of deference or homage; demonstrations of submissiveness. arch.
1617Moryson Itin. ii. 20 He failed not to mingle secretly the greatest Counsels of mischiefe with his humblest submissions. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Amb. 317 The Submissions, wherewith they express themselves in their Complements. a1715Burnet Own Time iii. (1724) I. 522 He had really the submissions of a child to me. 1753Richardson Grandison V. xli. 254 To what submissions has your generous repentance subjected you. 1824–9Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 I. 8 Those graceful submissions which afford us a legitimate pride when we render them to the worthy.
†c. Phr. with (great) submission: subject to correction. Also subst. Obs.
1667Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 31 Leaving every one to his own credulity, I shall only (but with submission) give my present apprehension of this Abassin Emperor. 1710Palmer Proverbs 189 Two or three If you'll give me Leave's; as many Spare Me's, with Submission's and I humbly Conceive's. a1721Prior Turtle & Sparrow 126 With great Submission I pronounce, That People Die no more than Once. 1753Cibber Lives Poets I. 18 With great submission to his judgment, we think [etc.]. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) III. 644 With submission, suppositions of a contrary tendency might be raised in any number.
3. a. The action of submitting to an authority, a conquering or ruling power; the act of yielding to the claims of another, or surrendering to his will or government; the condition of having submitted; also, an instance of this.
1482Cov. Leet Bk. 512 That þe seid Laurence shulde make his submission to such Meires as he had offended. 1575Gascoigne Glasse Govt. Wks. 1910 II. 20 When the people of Israell provoked him at sundry times, he did yet at every submission stay his hand from punishment. 1584–5Act 27 Eliz. c. 2. §13 All such..Submissions as shall be made by force of this Act..shall be certified into the Chancerie. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 19 A submission of the Rebels. Ibid. 279 Hee..made a most humble submission in writing. 1621Bacon in Jrnl. Ho. Lords III. 85/1 My humble Suit to your Lordships is, That my penitent Submission may be my Sentence, and the Loss of the Seal my Punishment. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xx. 105 To save his own life..by submission to the enemy. 1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 203 Religion consists in submission and resignation to the divine will. 1831Scott Ct. Rob. xxvi, By whose intervention you might have brought his empire to submission. 1833–5Newman Hist. Sk. (1876) II. i. viii. 150 The pursuit of gain may be an act of submission to the will of parents. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §2. 356 Mary was resolved to bring about a submission to Rome. 1878Encycl. Brit. VIII. 334/2 The Act of Submission on the part of the clergy subordinated all ecclesiastical legislation within the kingdom to the royal will.
b. transf.
1781Cowper Charity 158 All other sorrows virtue may endure, And find submission more than half a cure;..But slav'ry! 1790― Mother's Pict. 44, I learn'd at last submission to my lot. 1829Scott Anne of G. xxiv, He recommends to us submission to our hapless fate.
†4. Used for: Admission, confession. (Shakes.)
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. i. 76 O calme, dishonourable, vile submission. 1598― Merry W. iv. iv. 11 Be not as extreme in submission, as in offence.
5. attrib.: submission bond (see sense 1), an arbitration bond.
1791Kyd Law of Awards 231 The party in whose favour the award was made, having no advantage from the submission being made a rule of court, brought a common action on the submission-bond. |