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Search phrase: missive

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
Antony and Cleopatra	AC II.ii.78.1	Did gibe my missive out of audience.	Did gibe my Misiue out of audience.
Henry VI Part 1	1H6 I.i.88	To weep their intermissive miseries.	To weepe their intermissiue Miseries.
Henry VI Part 1	1H6 III.iv.10	And with submissive loyalty of heart	And with submissiue loyaltie of heart
Henry VI Part 1	1H6 IV.vii.53	On what submissive message art thou sent?	On what submissiue message art thou sent?
King Edward III	E3 IV.iv.78	That draws from me submissive orisons.	That drawes from me submissiue orizons,
Love's Labour's Lost	LLL IV.i.91	Submissive fall his princely feet before,	Submissiue fall his princely feete before,
Macbeth	Mac I.v.5	Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from	Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came Missiues from
Measure for Measure	MM I.iii.38	When evil deeds have their permissive pass	When euill deedes haue their permissiue passe,
The Taming of the Shrew	TS induction.1.51	And with a low submissive reverence	(And with a lowe submissiue reuerence)

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apt	yielding, compliant, submissive
conformable	compliant, submissive, tractable
corrigible	submissive, docile, acquiescent
crouching	submissive, cringing, docile
dependency	submissiveness, willing compliance
inclining	compliant, sympathetic, submissive
intermissive	intermittent, recurrent; or: temporarily interrupted
lither	yielding, submissive, compliant
lowly	humble, modest, submissive
missive	messenger, emissary, courier
prone	submissive, vulnerable, docile
servant	put in service, make submissive
slight	offhand, dismissive, contemptuous
spaniel	obsequious, slavish, submissive
squire-like	like an attendant, submissively
stooping	submissive, humble, kneeling
submissive	of submission, of surrender
suffering	long-suffering, patient, submissive
tame	submissive, resigned, habituated
tender	meek, submissive, spineless
unbent	unfrowning, not wrinkled; submissive
vassal	submissive, abject, yielding
writ	document, missive, letter

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