All 15 Uses of
submissive
in
War and Peace
- "However, if you command it, Your Majesty," said Kutuzov, lifting his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but submissive general.†
Chpt 3
- Pierre sighed, rose submissively, emptied his glass, and, waiting till all were seated again, turned with his kindly smile to Rostov.†
Chpt 4 *
- Rostov submissively unbent the corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, carefully wrote twenty-one.†
Chpt 4
- Princess Mary shrugged her shoulders but took the glass submissively and calling the nurse began giving the medicine.†
Chpt 5
- Having as it were reviewed her kingdom, tested her power, and made sure that everyone was submissive, but that all the same it was dull, Natasha betook herself to the ballroom, picked up her guitar, sat down in a dark corner behind a bookcase, and began to run her fingers over the strings in the bass, picking out a passage she recalled from an opera she had heard in Petersburg with Prince Andrew.†
Chpt 7
- Natasha went back to her father in the other box, now quite submissive to the world she found herself in.†
Chpt 8
- Anatole glanced round at his sister and rose submissively, ready to follow Pierre.†
Chpt 8
- Having wrung a submissive "I understand" from Dron, Alpatych contented himself with that, though he not only doubted but felt almost certain that without the help of troops the carts would not be forthcoming.†
Chpt 10
- And he fell back into that artificial realm of imaginary greatness, and again—as a horse walking a treadmill thinks it is doing something for itself—he submissively fulfilled the cruel, sad, gloomy, and inhuman role predestined for him.†
Chpt 10
- She assumed her dolefully submissive manner and said to her husband: "Listen to me, Count, you have managed matters so that we are getting nothing for the house, and now you wish to throw away all our—all the children's property!†
Chpt 11
- The young man in his clattering chains stepped clumsily to the spot indicated, holding away with one finger the coat collar which chafed his neck, turned his long neck twice this way and that, sighed, and submissively folded before him his thin hands, unused to work.†
Chpt 11
- The young man in the fur-lined coat, stooping a little, stood in a submissive attitude, his fingers clasped before him.†
Chpt 11
- He alone of all the Russians has disgraced the Russian name, he has caused Moscow to perish," said Rostopchin in a sharp, even voice, but suddenly he glanced down at Vereshchagin who continued to stand in the same submissive attitude.†
Chpt 11
- The same submissive, expressionless look with which he had listened to the Emperor's commands on the field of Austerlitz seven years before settled on his face now.†
Chpt 15
- She felt a submissive tender love for this man who would never understand all that she understood, and this seemed to make her love for him still stronger and added a touch of passionate tenderness.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(submissive) inclined to submit (give in) to the wishes of others