In short, the new good child was a paragon of dutiful submissiveness, refined virtue, and appropriate sensibility.
If his seventeenth century heroines demonstrate any characteristics, it is submissiveness.
Krontiris suggests that female translators were typically more literal than male ones, in order to emphasise their submissiveness.
True women were supposed to possess four cardinal virtues: piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness.
Submissiveness and necessity led me to the theater; propensity for and the love of this work emboldened me to write.
For too long, we have been hoodwinked by those who favour leniency and submissiveness in dealing with the part of society that chooses to live outside the law.
The economic dependence of women on men is one of the many reasons for women's passivity, submissiveness and also, in a certain sense, their consent to the phenomenon of violence.
They are a tribute to the extraordinary submissiveness of the millions of impoverished poor in this country.
