submissive
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Submissive dogs also pass their head under the chin of dogs to whom they are paying their respects.
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2021
Submissive, obedient Cornelia showed another facet as superior of her little group: facing down carpenters and tradespeople, she got the new Society of the Holy Child Jesus off to a strong start.
From Time Magazine Archive
Submissive to their superiors, they obeyed the word of command which told them that they must march: they marched, and that was all.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron
What though in lonely grief I sigh For friends beloved no longer nigh, Submissive still would I reply, Thy Will be done.
From The Conquest of Fear by King, Basil
Fittingly thine own feet bleed, Submissive to the purblind guides that lead Thy weary steps along this rugged course.
From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William
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