Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SUB-MISS'IVE
SUB-MISS'IVE, a.
- Yielding to the will or power of another; obedient.
- Humble; acknowledging one's inferiority; testifying one's submission. Her at his feet submissive in distress, / He thus with peaceful words uprais'd. – Milton.
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