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