Middle English Dictionary Entry
submissiǒun n.
Entry Info
| Forms | submissiǒun n. Also submissioune, -ione, submicion, summissioun. |
| Etymology | L submissio, summ-, -iōnis & OF soumission, submission, AF submissioun. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Obedience, humility, submissiveness; also, self-abasement [quot. c1449]; (b) chiefly law submitting to the authority of another in providing a ruling; also, an agreement to abide by the ruling of another; an agreement by which disputants submit their claims to the binding decision of a third party; don ~ to, to submit to the authority of (another to settle a dispute).
Associated quotations
a
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)8.2007 : God..Made hym victor for his gret meeknesse..As Cristis kniht; I take onto witnesse His submyssioun & his deuout humblesse.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)207 : The lay peple..knelen doun..and summe fallen so doun that her brestis and mouthis touchen the grounde; And more compunccioun, more deuocioun, and louȝer submissioun thei myȝten not..araie forto bisette vpon Crist..if he were in stide of the crosse so discouered.
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)31/20 : God hath sette His markis in the circute of hevenes by meruelouse diuising and grette maistrye, and vndir that therthe comprisid for to schewe the ensaumple of submission.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)42/8 : Of meke submyssion..Acounte þiself neuer to haue profited til þou fele þe lower þan all oþer.
b
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.3013 : We submitten vs to the excellence..of youre gracious lordshipe and ben redy to obeye to alle youre comandementz, bisekynge yow that..ye wol considere oure grete repentaunce and lowe submissioun [vrr. submissione; subieccoun].
- (1411) RParl.3.650b : The forsaid Archebisshop and Chamberleyn..by force of the submission that the said Robert in hem hath maad, haven ordeyned, [etc.].
- (1419) Proc.Privy C.2.260 : We have put us hooly in yowre governaunce..in this cas of owre summissioun and good hert and wille, as we that wolle obeye yowre ordinaunce and rewle in this matier.
- (1426-7) Paston1.12 : Þe seyd William..hath submytted hym to stonde to þe ordinaunce of diuers persones of alle þe seyd matiers..the whiche submission wyth alle þe circumstaunces þer-of þe seyd William hath be at alle tymes redy to obeye.
- (1428) Doc.in Sur.Soc.855 : He submyt hym to ye..awarde of ye Mayr and Counsell..how yai wald ordayne hym to do for all his trespas..And so ye Mayr and ye Counsell of ye chambre, consideryng ye law submission of ye sayd John Lyllyng..tuke hym to yair grace.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)3601 : I wol nevir cese Tyl Sirophanes have of Beryn a pleyn relese And to make hym quyte of his submyssioune.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)3843 : Gage also vs take In signe of submissioun for yeur Iniury, As lawe woll & reson, for wee woll vttirly Procede tyll wee have Iugement finall.
- (a1461) Paston2.199 : Stywardesson cam to me..and wold put hym-self in my rewle to do as I wil bidde hym, trustyng..þat I wold take hym to grace the rather for his submyssion..and for his sake that I had receyved that day þat I wold take his submyssion.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)366/27 : The same parties..submytted them-self..to the bisshoppis ordeynyng..to have hit..sure for ever what-so-ever he ordeyned..even as hit apperith of submyssions of the same parties.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)368/2 : The tenoure therof is even like worde for word to the tenour of the submycion of the abbesse and mynchons afore I-write.
- a1475 Heart & Eye(3) (Lngl 258)356 : I complayne me..Of gret Iniurye that the ye hath doon..Wherfore to you I doo submissioun.
- a1525(?1465) Cov.Leet Bk.332 : He were worthy to haue made as lowly submission as cowde be thought..& to haue boron to the vtmast of his godes be-sides that, [etc.].