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Submissiveness. Acquiescence. The state of submitting to another or something.

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Usage examples (11)
  • Students walking singly or in groups into the buildings, with palpable energy/fear/resignedness.
  • And I had almost said, that it depends upon yourself, by your patience, and by your resignedness to the dispensation,
  • I any encouragement to follow too implicitly the example which my mother sets of meekness, and resignedness to the wills of others?
  • But every other feeling as it rushed upon his was thrown into abeyance by pity, deep respectful pity, for the man who sat before him — already so bruised, going forth with sad...
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