succumbent
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin succumbens, present participle.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
succumbent (comparative more succumbent, superlative most succumbent)
- (obsolete) submissive; yielding
- 1655, James Howell, “To Dr. B.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
- Reason succumbent to Faith
References[edit]
“succumbent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
succumbent