单词 | submissly |
释义 | submisslyadv. Now archaic and rare. Submissively, with submission; humbly. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > [adverb] subjectly?1529 sufferantlya1550 submissively1572 against, with the stream1579 subjectively1579 submissly1595 submittinglya1628 hands down1896 1595 in T. Birch Mem. Reign Queen Elizabeth (1754) I. 237 (modernized text) I beseech you most submissly, to use your excellent insight [etc.]. 1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. xxix. 5 For his neighbours money he will speake submissely . View more context for this quotation 1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living ii. §4. 104 Humility consists not in..going softly and submissely. 1683 R. Dixon Canidia iv. vii. 26 With an Eye submissly thrown Upon the ground, she fetcht a Groan. 1739 G. Ogle Gualtherus & Griselda 104 Then chuse the Good! The Ill submisly bear. 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. iii. 79 [He] crosses himself with an extended hand, pronounces the text submissly, yet sonorously, and began his sermon in this manner. 1826 D. M. Moir in Time's Telescope: Guide to Almanack p. xxxi At Truth's pure shrine the heathen bows the knee ! Owns his low worthlessness, submissly owns His trust in Him who bled on Calvary! 1896 E. M. Thomas Winter Swallow 102 Nor scorn from thee would they be slow to pay, Nor check from thee submissly would they bear. 1957 J. B. Leishman tr. R. M. Rilke Poems 302 And now, in purity of revelation, declare submissly what proceeds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1595 |
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