Submitting vbl. sb.

[-ING¹.] The action of the vb. SUBMIT; submission.

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c. 1460. Oseney Reg., 49. Of þ^e which debates … þe parties … haue i-putte þem-selfe in submittyng and ordinaunce of the bisshop of lincoln.

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a. 1653. Gouge, Comm. Heb. xi. 18. This could not be without Isaac’s voluntary submitting of himself.

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1675. Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.), Ess. Satire, 240. A life … Spent in base Injury, and low submitting.

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1723. Waterland, 2nd Vind. Christ’s Div., 62. The submitting to This Office is a great Instance of the Son’s Condescension.

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