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Definition of "insubmissive" []

  • Unwilling to submit; not submissive, disobedient (adjective)

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Use "insubmissive" in a sentence
  • "Would this insubmissive spirit have passed out of her writings, as it passed, for instance, out of those of George Sand?"
  • "It was hard for her to find words that would not seem too positive, too insubmissive."
  • "Lamennais, no less devout in spirit than they, died insubmissive, and above his grave, among the poor of Père-Lachaise, no cross was erected."