submitting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of submit

plural submittings

1. formalrareA submission.

   With something of her original archness, mingling with graver rebuke, Honoria reminded the rebel of certain dutiful expressions, and religious submittings of the will, with which he had so lately gratified her.

   1827, Anna Maria Porter, Honor O'Hara, volume 2, page 268

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   Did the Creator see fit to adopt the plan of creation through a series of variations, and submittings of them to selection; or did He, by his fiat, evoke the human form into its acknowledged perfection in an instant?

   1869, The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review

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1. submissive