All 4 Uses of
submissive
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Making her feel that she had "wronged" him, he took advantage of her phenomenal meekness and submissiveness to trample on the elementary decencies of marriage.†
Chpt 1
- She was the daughter of an official, a sweet, gentle, submissive creature.†
Chpt 3 *
- For accepting the love of the righteous together with the impossibility of repaying it, by this submissiveness and the effect of this humility, they will attain at last, as it were, to a certain semblance of that active love which they scorned in life, to something like its outward expression….†
Chpt 6
- In his mood of doglike submissiveness all feeling of rivalry had died away.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(submissive) inclined to submit (give in) to the wishes of others