submissionn.
/səbˈmɪʃn/, U.S. /səbˈmɪʃən/ I. The submitting of something to a higher authority for decision.
1. Chiefly Law. Agreement to abide by a decision or to obey an authority; reference to the decision or judgment of a (third) party, esp. reference of a matter to arbitration; an instance of this. Also (Scots Law): a contract by which parties in a dispute agree to submit to arbitration; a document embodying this.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > referral
submissionc1405
reference1579
referment1586
referrer1650
remit1650
submittal1850
referral1920
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > submission to arbitration > agreement to abide by decision of third party
submissionc1405
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > submission to arbitration
summission1419
compromissionc1425
compromise1464
submission1580
sequestration1592
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Melibeus (Ellesmere) (1872) §3013 Bisekynge yow that of youre merciable pitee ye wol considere oure grete repentaunce and lough submyssioun.
1411 Rolls of Parl.: Henry IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1411 §13. m. 14 The forsaid archebisshop and chamberleyn..by force of the submissioun that the said Robert in hem hathe maad, haven ordeyned [etc.].
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 367 (heading) (MED) Next to this folowyth the Submyssion of the abbot and couent of Oseney to abide the ordeynyng.
1580 Reg. Privy Council Scott. 1st Ser. III. 278 The submissioun maid and aggreit upoun..anent materis questionabill betuix thame.
1587 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 472/1 Submissioun of the contraversie beuix the erle of angus and lord flemyng.
1628 Sc. Acts Chas. I (1870) V. 189 The Submission made be the Lords of Erectiones Titulers Tacksmen and Gentrie Heretors of Lands To His Majestie anent their Superiorities and Teinds &c.
1704 T. Wood New Inst. Imperial or Civil Law iv. iii. 340 It may be known whether one is appointed Arbitrator or Arbiter by the form and terms of the Compromise or Submission.
1764 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. (ed. 3) iv. iii. §16 465 The day within which the arbiters are to decide is left blank in the submission.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 692 An oversman is an umpire appointed by a submission to decide where two arbiters have differed in opinion.
1886 Accountant 3 Apr. 198/2 There are disadvantages attending a verbal submission, such as the difficulty in defining with precision the matter in dispute.
1927 Sc. Law Rev. & Sheriff Court Rep. 43 130 The landlord and tenant should by deed of submission give the arbiter power to deal with any necessary repairs.
1953 ABA Jrnl. Mar. 195/1 Either party to a common-law submission may revoke it before an award is made.
2.
a. The action or an act of submitting something to another (frequently a higher authority) for decision or consideration.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > referral > to a person
submission1768
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. i. 17 Their submission of the suit to arbitration or umpirage shall be made a rule of any of the king's courts of record.
1868 Rep. Proc. & Deb. of Convent. Revision Constit. State N.Y. II. 1750/1 Many gentlemen have said,..that they were in favour of the submission of this question to the people.
1899 Pennsylvania Superior Court Rep. 8 427 The contract between him and the plaintiff was made subsequent to the submission of the paper.
1914 Times 12 June 8/2 Amending Bill Drafted. Date of Submission to the Lords.
1963 Computer Jrnl. 5 248 Authors are asked to check their references for accuracy before submission of the paper.
1983 Sunday Tel. Mag. 28 Mar. 20/2 The whole submission process has to be gone through again.
2003 D. L. Scott Wall St. Words (ed. 3) 281 The initial yields and prices for an upcoming bond issue prior to submission of a bid.
b. Something submitted for decision or consideration; a point of view, a theory of a case; a proposal, an application; spec. a proposition or argument submitted by counsel to a judge or jury.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [noun] > matter for discussion
questionc1225
pointc1300
propositiona1382
conclusion1393
positiona1398
motivec1400
move1439
gainsay1559
moot point1563
argumenta1568
prop1607
contention1635
corollary1636
hypothesis1669
discursivea1676
contestation1880
submission1884
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] > case put by advocate
submission1884
1884 Sessional Papers Canada (5th Parl., 2nd Sess.) IX. No. 30 e.. 93 Being a local body, my submission is that it is a municipal institution.
1923 Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan. 3/7 The Court could not uphold this submission.
1946 Times 28 Aug. 5/1 When the court convenes today the directions..on certain submissions by the defence are expected.
1950 E. Bridges Note in R. A. Chapman Ethics in Brit. Civil Service (1988) iii. 127 It will not be possible to make any top-hat submission to Ministers before the recess.
1976 Daily Tel. 20 July 3/2 In my submission it is nonsense.
1978 Quill & Quire Aug. 2/2 The library boards..made submissions to..the provincial government.
2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 May 50/1 Determining the constitutionality of the program would turn upon submissions to the Intelligence Court by the attorney general.
II. The submitting of oneself to another.
3.
a. The state or condition of being submissive or obedient; deferential conduct, attitude, or bearing; humility. Also: † humiliation, abasement. Now archaic.
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the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [noun]
fawninga1350
submission?a1439
overlowness1496
servility1573
servilenessa1594
obsequency1595
obsequiousness1613
cringing1617
slavishnessa1620
vernility1623
servulating1637
suppleness1638
sneakinga1657
subserviency1669
fawningness1672
subservience1680
cringingness1695
truckling1820
obsequience1830
flunkeyism1831
servilism1831
spanielship1832
toadyism1840
flunkeydom1850
oleaginousness1853
vassalism1854
toadying1863
grovel1892
obsequity1892
crawlsomeness1900
serfishness1906
oleosity?1920
ass-kissing1936
society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > [noun]
yieldingc1425
submission?a1439
passive obediencea1602
submissiveness1608
submissness1613
yieldingness1613
yokeablenessa1638
yieldableness1645
passivity1681
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) viii. l. 2007 As Cristis kniht; I take onto witnesse His submyssioun & his deuout humblesse.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 207 More deuocioun, and louȝer submissioun thei myȝten not neither couthen araie forto bisette vpon Crist him silf.
a1500 (a1471) G. Ashby Active Policy Prince l. 418 in Poems (1899) 26 Ye must subdewe with al suppressyng Euery persoune withoute submission Pretendyng right to your coronacion.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. x Luther..writeth to the Bishop of Rome letters full of submission.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. ii. 52 Tell her, I returne great thankes, And in submission will attend on her. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 310 Subjection..by her..Yeilded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay. View more context for this quotation
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 41 He had not that..submission, and reverence for the Queen, as might have been expected.
1796 E. Inchbald Nature & Art I. xviii. 115 Situations that claimed his implicit reverence and submission.
1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. xiii. 357 They met, Frederick with dignified submission, the Pope with the calm majesty of age and position.
1893 E. F. Knight Where Three Empires Meet xxviii. 446 They..received us with much salaaming and offerings of chapatis and ghee in signification of their submission.
1926 H. L. Friess tr. F. D. E. Schleiermacher Soliloquies iv. 74 [They] relapsed from an abortive emancipation into permanent submission to the rule of the brotherhood.
1946 W. Wolff Personality of Preschool Child ii. 63 Two children who have just demonstrated behavior of dominance and submission suddenly show behavior of mutual understanding.
2010 Church Times 21 May 19/4 This attitude of humble submission and dependence on God.
b. In plural. Acts of deference or homage; demonstrations of submissiveness. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [noun] > manifestation of respect > act(s) of deference
submissions1577
humility1612
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1355/1 Among other speciall points therein touched he gathered all the submissions and homages had and made by the Scottishe kings euen from the dayes of King Athelston.
1584 B. Rich Don Simonides II. 51 I ouerwearied with these wofull exhortations, submissions and lamentations, conclusiuely aunswered hym thus.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 20 He failed not to mingle secretly the greatest Counsels of mischiefe with his humblest submissions.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 317 The Submissions, wherewith they express themselves in their Complements.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 14 Able to reach from the highest Arrogance to the meanest, and most dejected Submissions.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xli. 254 To what submissions has your generous repentance subjected you.
1794 W. Godwin Things as They Are II. x. 193 Do you think I will ever make any submissions to a man by whom I am thus treated?
1804 R. Heber Let. Oct. in Heber Lett. (1950) v. 150 Pye sent his submissions and declared that he was hindered by his Master but will join us this evening.
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 8/1 Those graceful submissions which afford us a legitimate pride when we render them to the worthy.
1903 E. Fawcett Voices & Visions 105 Proffer all time-worn traditions Your unqualified submissions.
4. The action of submitting to an authority, a conquering or ruling power; the act of yielding to the claims of another, or surrendering to another's will or government; the condition of having submitted; an instance of this.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > submission > [noun]
kneeinga1240
submittingc1460
submissiona1475
submittance1602
resignation1663
dedition1667
knuckle-down1859
a1475 in Anglia (1911) 34 249 (MED) I complayne me..Of gret Iniurye that the ye hath doon..Wherfore to you I doo submissioun.
a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 512 That þe seid Laurence shulde make his submission to such Meires as he had offended.
1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. i. iv. sig. Biiiv When the people of Israell prouoked him at sundry times, he did yet at euery submission stay his hand from punishment.
1584–5 Act 27 Eliz. c. 2. §13 All such..Submissions as shall be made by force of this Act..shall be certified into the Chancerie.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 279 Hee..made a most humble submission in writing.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xx. 105 To save his own life..by submission to the enemy.
1713 J. Addison Cato ii. i Are your Hearts subdu'd..and wrought By Time and ill Success to a Submission?
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. lxxiv. 42 There is no remedy but submission to the will of Heaven.
1831 W. Scott Count Robert ii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 45 By whose intervention you might have brought his empire to submission.
1850 Times 5/3 1 July The pirate chief..had given in his submission to the Chinese government.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §2. 356 Mary was resolved to bring about a submission to Rome.
1923 D. A. Mackenzie Myths China & Japan xvi. 298 Taoists must make unquestioning submission to the Tao.
1965 J. A. Michener Source 534 Arab soldiers could move among them, collecting the submission money.
2007 N.Y. Times 28 Aug. (Washington Final ed.) d4/2 Ancient lizards would instinctively bend their spine and limbs..signaling submission to a larger animal.
5. In Wrestling and other combat sports: the action or an act of surrendering to a hold by one's opponent. Often attributive, as submission fall, submission hold, etc.
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1922 Amer. Mag. Apr. 61/3 The idea of ‘punishing’ opponents by painful or crippling grips, so that they would surrender.., was new. Lewis practically choked opponents into submission.
1933 S. Graham Twice round London Clock & More London Nights ii. xi. 142 Torture may be applied, such as the twisting and breaking back of the fingers, and a ‘submission fall’ obtained if the victim cries ‘Enough!’
1939 C. H. Madge & T. H. Harrisson Brit. by Mass-observ. iv. 115 When a man is felled by a blow, his opponent may..continue wrestling to obtain a fall or submission.
1982 Black Belt July 64/1 A submission hold is any hold that causes your opponent to submit... Here we'll only discuss utilizing the wrist to cause submission.
2009 T. Jones Risky Living 22 If you don't know about Brazilian jujitsu, it's ground fighting;..it's all submissions, no punching, no hitting; it's chokes and arm bars.
6. The action of admitting or confessing; an instance of this. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > [noun]
anyetenessc1175
anyetingc1175
avowry1340
beknowledging1340
confessionc1384
professiona1513
owning1535
acknowledgement1574
avowment1581
submission1597
avowancea1603
confessing1611
avowinga1677
avowal1732
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. i. 72 O dishonorable vile submission . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. iv. 10 Be not as extreme in submission, as in offence. View more context for this quotation
Phrases
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > subject to correction
though I say it that should notc888
under correctionc1374
under (also saving) reformation1553
with (great) submission1597
1597 R. Tofte Laura sig. A2 v Onely this with submission wil I say, that if the richnes of the ground is knowne by the Corne..then may euerie man giue a gesse of the internall habit & excelent qualities of your inward minde.
1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xxi But these, as all other things, I write vnder correction, and with submission and desire of better iudgement.
1667 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (1677) 31 Leaving every one to his own credulity, I shall only (but with submission) give my present apprehension of this Abassin Emperor.
1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 189 Two or three If you'll give me Leave's; as many Spare Me's, with Submission's and I humbly Conceive's.
a1721 M. Prior Turtle & Sparrow (1723) 126 With great Submission I pronounce, That People Die no more than Once.
1753 R. Shiels & T. Cibber Lives Poets Great Brit. & Irel. I. 18 With great submission to his judgment, we think [etc.].
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. III. vii. vi. 644 With submission, suppositions of a contrary tendency might be raised in any number.
1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xiv. 448 He..neatly said that he thought he would, with submission, take his leave.
P2. to —— (a person) into submission: to —— (a person) until he or she submits, surrenders, etc.; (later also more generally) to —— (a person) in a relentless or overwhelming manner.
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1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xix. 124 If I can civilize his rudenesse by my sword, and chastize him into submission, then he sings his penitentiall song in the true tune.
1668 R. Steele Husbandmans Calling x. 253 You would be melted into submission, not forced.
1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 58/1 That armed force which was to have looked all America into submission.
1832 Examiner 663/1 [Her] half-coaxing, half-bullying manner of protocolling him into submission was inimitable.
1856 Alton (Illinois) Weekly Courier 17 July 2/5 If I am to be brow-beaten, badgered and dragooned into submission it will not be while I am pursuing what will be called a shuffling and prevaricating line of notion.
1949 S. J. Perelman Let. 22 Feb. in Don't tread on Me (1987) 88 In case your son needs to be frightened into submission, just tell him that this is the country of the Dyak head-hunters.
1972 Star (Johannesburg) 17 Mar. 17 Here the 1700-strong Knopkierie Kommando, rough Afrikaner men, were shelled and rifled into submission.
1993 Guardian 23 Sept. ii. 3/1 Their only successful counterploy has been to bore everyone into submission.
2002 R. G. Mitchell Dancing at Armageddon v. 181 The would-be master race stands slack-jawed and mute behind the fence, can-canned into submission by six young ladies from Spokane, a dance troupe called The Class Act.
Compounds
In sense 1.
submission bond n. now historical and rare a bond by which parties agree to submit a matter to arbitration and abide by the decision of arbitrator.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > submission to arbitration > arbitration bond
submission bond1718
1718 tr. E. Lutwyche Rep. Resol. Court 2 695 By the Condition of the Submission-Bond [Fr. per le Condition del Obligation de submission], it shall be suppos'd, that there were Controversies and Demands which the Plaintiff and the Helyard had against the Defendant.
1791 S. Kyd Treat. Law of Awards 231 The party in whose favour the award was made, having no advantage from the submission being made a rule of court, brought a common action on the submission-bond.
1848 Rep. Supreme Court Florida 2 129 The counsel for plaintiff in error insists that the Courts are more lenient to awards under submission bonds than where made rules of Court.
1921 Jrnl. House of Representatives City of Austin Index 696/2 To amend law relating to submission bond.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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