unsubmissive

Word Origin & History

1580s, "inclined to submit," from Latin submiss-, past participle stem of submittere (see submission) + -ive. Masochistic sexual sense is attested by 1969. As a noun in this sense, by 1985. Related: Submissively; submissiveness.

Example Sentences for unsubmissive

The former was ever meek and feminine, the latter fierce and unsubmissive.

It bears the date of April 10th, being the very next day after he had written to Reynolds in so unsubmissive a tone.

How could I remain impenitent and unsubmissive when for my faults an innocent man stood exposed in contumely to the public gaze?

At times he sulked, at times he affected a cold dignity, and at times a virile anger swayed him at her unsubmissive silences.

If you give a boy the education of a girl, or a girl the education of a boy, the result will be an unsubmissive or degraded being.

But neglected children, that is, those that are left to themselves, are almost always very disobedient and unsubmissive.

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adjective. alienated, estranged

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