submission

n.

1. 1. The act of submitting to the power of another: “Oppression that cannot be overcome does not give rise to revolt but to submission” (Simone Weil).
   2. The state of having submitted. See synonyms at surrender.
2. The state of being submissive or compliant; meekness.
3. 1. The act of submitting something for consideration.
   2. Something so submitted: read three fiction manuscripts and other such submissions.

[Middle English submissioun, from Old French submission, from Latin submissiō, submissiōn-, a lowering, from submissus, past participle of submittere, to set under. See submit.]

noun

1. The act of submitting or surrendering to the power of another: capitulation, surrender. See resist/yield, win/lose/recovery.
2. The quality or state of willingly carrying out the wishes of others: acquiescence, amenability, amenableness, compliance, compliancy, deference, obedience, submissiveness, tractability, tractableness. See resist/yield.
3. Something that is put forward for consideration: proposal, proposition, suggestion. See offer.

n

Definition: compliance
Antonyms: defiance, fight, resistance

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Quotes:

"The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility." - Georges Bataille

"There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness." - George Eliot

"There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave." - Nikki Giovanni

"If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation." - Vaclav Havel

"My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are." - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

"Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism -- robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it." - George Orwell

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - forelæggelse, forslag, teori, påstand, underkastelse, underdanighed, lydighed

Nederlands (Dutch)
overgave, onderwerping, onderdanigheid, overlegging, inlevering, voorstel

Français (French)
n. - soumission, rapport, (Jur) conclusions, thèse (sout)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Unterwerfung, Einreichung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - υποταγή, υποβολή, διατύπωση θεωρίας, (νομ.) ισχυρισμός, (μτφ.) ευπείθεια, δουλικότητα

Italiano (Italian)
resa, presentazione, sottomissione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - submissão (f)

Русский (Russian)
подчинение, покорность, представление, подача (документов), передача на рассмотрение, мнение, утверждение, довод

Español (Spanish)
n. - capitulación, rendición, sumisión, entrega, presentación

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - underkastelse, resignation, , underdånighet, ödmjukhet, föredragande, presentation, åsikt (jur.)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
屈服, 服从, 降服

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 屈服, 服從, 降服

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 복종 , 항복, 순종

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 服従, 従順, 謙虚, 提出, 提起, 提出物

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ادعاء, عرض, اذعان, خضوع, طاعه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כניעה, הכנעה, צייתנות, טענה, הצהרה, הגשה, מסירה‬

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