submissnessn.

1613 J. Hayward Liues III. Normans 251 The Duke was in demaunds moderate, in countenance and speech enclined to submisnesse.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. xv. 183 With all submissenes [I] prostrate my self to your censure and service.

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 167 Whachum advanc'd, with all submissness, T'accost 'em, but much more, their bus'ness.

1726 J. Brown Divine Help Implored 16 He chose rather to shew his Reverence and Submissness, in a calm and deliberate Utterance.

1812 C. R. Maturin Milesian Chief I. iii. 52 The submissness of his degenerate son, who could accept an office, almost servile, within the walls of which he was born to be the master.

1862 A. Vance tr. A. de La Sale Hist. & Pleasant Chron. Little Jehan de Saintré Pref. p. xii It is hardly to be supposed that Brinchamel would ever have expressed himself in terms of so much submissness.

1906 19th Cent. & After Sept. 453 In repose his features contracted into a look of ineffable dreariness, sorrow and affliction, of mute submissness and despair.

1957 J. B. Leishman tr. R. M. Rilke Poems 1906–26 244 Never, in the hard necessitation of bearing up against the storm, be losing submissness to the gentlest suspiration.