submissivenessn.

1608 E. Grimeston in tr. J. F. Le Petit Gen. Hist. Netherlands viii. 403 To mooue and incite them to peace, submissiuenesse, and obedience [L. ad quietem obedientiam auocari].

1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida Pref. sig. b2 With all the submissiveness he can practice, & all the calmness of a reasonable man.

1709 B. Mandeville Virgin Unmask'd ii. 51 All the fond Love and Submissivenes of Aurelia, could hardly keep him from being mischievous.

1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless II. viii. 91 [He] was not so easy as the submissiveness of his passion made him affect to be.

1799 C. B. Brown Arthur Mervyn I. xvii. 166 He was surrounded by neatness and plenty. Austin added dexterity to submissiveness.

1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea II. xii. 185 They approached him respectfully, but without submissiveness.

1890 F. W. Robinson Very Strange Family 74 In all submissiveness [he] owned how deplorably wrong he had been.

1941 S. D. Stirk Prussian Spirit xii. 200 He bore his sufferings with patience and submissiveness.

1972 H. Papanek in A. M. Freedman & H. I. Kaplan Interpreting Personality iii. 127 A patriarchal culture, in which the real man is respected and admired and the feminine role connotes submissiveness and immaturity.

2004 Face Apr. 177/2 Women became key to getting the country back on its feet again and have responded by ditching their traditional submissiveness.