Definition of "submissively" [submissively]

• In a submissive manner. (adverb)

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• ""When I left Oxford," he said -- "as I told you before, I left what I conceived to be slavery -- that is, a submissively ordered routine of learning in which there occurred nothing new -- nothing hopeful -- nothing really serviceable."
• "They already had been rummaging the Latvian capital for just the right restaurant for forty-five minutes—three hours if you include the time they spent discussing it while they tossed around the Frisbee in Bastejkalns Park, had beers at an Old Town café, and otherwise submissively ingested the showcase that was Riga's female populace."
• "Is he tense and fearful with eyes darting back and forth, or his gaze looking away while he's cringing submissively?"