[f. SUBMISSION + -IST.] One who advocates submission; spec. in Spanish and U.S. history.
1828. Lights & Shades, I. 209. Mr. Popjoy alluding to the submissionists at Cadiz.
1851. O. W. Holmes, in Corr. Motley (1889), I. 360. The Hunker or Submissionist, or whatever you choose to call the wretch who would sacrifice everything and beg the South’s pardon for offending it.
1906. Contemp. Rev., July, 118. Those organs which carried on a violent campaign against the submissionists.
