Definition of Submission

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Submission

The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance.

The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation.

Acknowledgement of a fault; confession of error.

An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators.

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Submission Quotations

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
Mary Wollstonecraft

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Henry Miller

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Bertrand Russell

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Simone Weil

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Eldridge Cleaver

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
Jacques Lacan

I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance.
June Carter Cash

Submission Translations

submission in German is Unterbreitung, Unterwerfung
submission in Italian is soggiogamento
submission in Latin is obsequium
submission in Swedish is underkastelse

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