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unsubmissive


adjective

  1. inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants.
  2. marked by or indicating submission or an instance of yielding to the authority of another: a submissive reply.

adjective

  1. of, tending towards, or indicating submission, humility, or servility

adj.1580s, “inclined to submit,” from Latin submiss-, past participle stem of submittere (see submission) + -ive. Masochistic sexual sense is attested by 1969. As a noun in this sense, by 1985. Related: Submissively; submissiveness.

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