submission

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
noun the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
noun the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else

From Middle English submissioun, from Old French soubmission, from Latin submissio, from submitto.

Simplicity is submission to God. — War and Peace, Leo, graf Tolstoy
“True,—but, with submission, sir, behold these hairs! — Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street, Herman Melville
Peace is despaired; For who can think submission? — Paradise Lost, John Milton

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