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submissiveness
noun as in obedience
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He will move upward in society through opportunism and submissiveness.
Mr. Pontellier had been a rather courteous husband so long as he met a certain tacit submissiveness in his wife.
Susan, seeming somewhat shyer,Showed submissiveness straightway.
"One and six—one and six," replied Wayne, with a wild submissiveness.
The people, its intoxication once passed, will fall back into its misery and abject submissiveness.
Its only share in the judicial duties of the latter was to execute its sentences with humble submissiveness.
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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to submissiveness, such as: accordance, acquiescence, agreement, amenability, amenableness, and compliance.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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