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subˈmissively, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a submissive manner, with submission.
c1590Marlowe Jew of Malta [iv.] 1790 Write not so submissiuely, but threatning him. 1687Dryden Hind & P. ii. 509 The whole hierarchy, with heads hung down, Submissively declin'd the pondrous proffer'd crown. 1746Hervey Refl. Flower Garden (1818) 146 Under the heaviest tribulations most submissively patient. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xiv, ‘Perhaps you are right, uncle,’ replied Mrs. Kenwigs submissively. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxii. 153 He approached me submissively,..and declared his willingness to go on. |