All 5 Uses of
submissive
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Keep your journey a secret; do not boast of what you have come to Paris to do, or have done; return with all speed; enter Marseilles at night, and your house by the back-door, and there remain, quiet, submissive, secret, and, above all, inoffensive; for this time, I swear to you, we shall act like powerful men who know their enemies.†
Chpt 11-12
- Is it possible to find a more submissive slave than myself?†
Chpt 51-52 *
- "My God," said Valentine, raising both her hands to heaven with a sublime expression, "I have done my utmost to remain a submissive daughter; I have begged, entreated, implored; he has regarded neither my prayers, my entreaties, nor my tears.†
Chpt 73-74
- However, this time, my tranquillity, or passiveness as philosophers say, proceeded from another source; it proceeded from a wish, like a submissive and devoted daughter" (a slight smile was observable on the purple lips of the young girl), "to practice obedience."†
Chpt 95-96
- Eugenie bowed, not as a submissive daughter, but as an adversary prepared for a discussion.†
Chpt 95-96
Definition:
inclined to submit (give in) to the wishes of others