submitting

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: səbmĭtʹ
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /səbˈmɪtɪŋ/

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  • (US, Canada, Australia) IPA^(key): /səbˈmɪtɪŋ/, [səbˈmɪɾɪŋ]
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ
• Hyphenation: sub‧mit‧ting

Verb

submitting

1. present participle and gerund of submit

Noun

submitting (plural submittings)

1. (rare, formal) A submission.
   • 1827, Anna Maria Porter, Honor O'Hara, volume 2, page 268:

     With something of her original archness, mingling with graver rebuke, Honoria reminded the rebel of certain dutiful expressions, and religious submittings of the will, with which he had so lately gratified her.

   • 1869, The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review:

     Did the Creator see fit to adopt the plan of creation through a series of variations, and submittings of them to selection; or did He, by his fiat, evoke the human form into its acknowledged perfection in an instant?

Adjective

submitting (comparative more submitting, superlative most submitting)

1. submissive

Derived terms

• submittingly
• unsubmitting