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submissive

/səbˈmɪsɪv/ noun C2
  1. One who submits to a dominating partner in BDSM practices.

Plural submissives

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Keep your journey a secret; do not boast of what you have come to Paris to do, or have done; return with all speed; enter Marseilles at night, and your house by the back-door, and there remain, quiet, submissive, secret, and, above all, inoffensive; for this time, I swear to you, we shall act like powerful men who know their enemies.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 117 · C1
However, this time, my tranquillity, or passiveness as philosophers say, proceeded from another source; it proceeded from a wish, like a submissive and devoted daughter” (a slight smile was observable on the purple lips of the young girl), “to practice obedience.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 950 · C1
Eugénie bowed, not as a submissive daughter, but as an adversary prepared for a discussion.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 953 · C1

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