nonresistance

humility, humbleness; meekness, lowness; lowliness, lowlihood; abasement, self-abasement; submission; resignation., condescension; affability (courtesy)., modesty; verecundity, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of shame,sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down.

be humble; deign, vouchsafe, condescend; humble oneself, demean oneself; stoop, stoopto conquer; carry coals; submit; submit with a good grace (brook); yield the palm., lower one's tone, lower one's note; sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down; hide one's face, hide one's diminished head; not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs., blush for, blush up to the eves; redden, change color; color up; hang one's head, look foolish, feel small., render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade [more]; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear., get a setdown.

humble, lowly, meek; modest; humble minded, sober-minded; unoffended; submissive; servile, [more]., condescending; affable (courteous)., humbled; bowed down, resigned; abashed, ashamed, dashed; out of countenance; down in the mouth; down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers; humbled in the dust, browbeaten; chapfallen, crestfallen; dumfoundered. flabbergasted., shorn of one's glory (disrepute) [more].

with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee; on all fours, on one's feet., under correction, with due deference.

resignation, retirement, abdication, renunciation, abjuration; abandonment, relinquishment.

resign; give up, throw up; lay down, throw up the cards, wash one's hands of, abjure, renounce, forego, disclaim, retract; deny., abrogate; desert (relinquish); get rid of., abdicate; vacate, vacate one's seat; accept the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds; retire; tender one's resignation; bail out.

abdicant.

submission, yielding; nonresistance; obedience., surrender, cession, capitulation, resignation; backdown., obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow, prostration.

succumb, submit, yield, bend, resign, defer to., lay down one's arms, deliver up one's arms; lower colors, haul down colors, strike one's flag, strike colors., surrender, surrender at discretion; cede, capitulate, come to terms, retreat, beat a retreat; draw in one's horns (humility) [more]; give way, give round, give in, give up; cave in; suffer judgement by default; bend, bend to one's yoke, bend before the storm; reel back; bend down, knuckle down, knuckle to, knuckle under; knock under., eat dirt, eat the leek, eat humble pie; bite the dust, lick the dust; be at one's feet, fall at one's feet; craven; crouch before, throw oneself at the feet of; swallow the leek, swallow the pill; kiss the rod; turn the other cheek; avaler les couleuvres, gulp down., obey; kneel to, bow to, pay homage to, cringe to, truckle to; bend the neck, bend the knee; kneel, fall on one's knees, bow submission, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow., pocket the affront; make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; grin and abide, grin and bear it, shrug the shoulders, resign oneself; submit with a good grace (bear with).

surrendering; submissive, resigned, crouching; downtrodden; down on one's marrow bones; on one's bended knee; unresisting, nonresisting; pliant (soft); undefended., untenable, indefensible; humble.