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succumbency Now rare.|səˈkʌmbənsɪ| [f. next: see -ency. Cf. med.L. succumbentia failure in a cause.] A giving way or yielding; submission.
1653R. G. tr. Bacon's Hist. Winds 371 The means and wayes of the succumbency and yieldings of Motions are carefully to be looked into. 1668Howe Bless Righteous (1825) 258 Thy vile succumbency gives him the day and his will upon thee. 1698― Serm. Duty Magistr. Wks. 1863 V. 396 A timorous fainting and succumbency. 1820Foster Ess. Evils Pop. Ignor. 163 This..unquestioning, unmurmuring, succumbency under the actual allotment. |