Definitionn. submission to others or to outside influences
Last update: June 20, 2015
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His passiveness will never let him succeed. [Please select]
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But though the Lakeman had induced the seamen to adopt this sort of passiveness in their conduct, he kept his own counsel (at least till all was over) concerning his own proper and private revenge upon the man who had stung him in the ventricles of his heart. [Please select]
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The passiveness of our neighbors increases our sense of security, and plays into the hands of our wilfulness. [Please select]
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Meanwhile the boy, emboldened by Jack's passiveness, followed, with more abuse of the same sort. [Please select]
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How was she to tell Rosy of the ugly, morbid situation which made ordinary passiveness impossible. [Please select]
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For a moment Kao seemed to hesitate, to study the cold, gray passiveness of the other's face. [Please select]
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It may be that her passiveness was partly due to the fact that she knew her next meeting with John would mean farewell to Haddon Hall. [Please select]
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Charley's passiveness when he was assaulted by old Louis and afterwards threatened by the saddler seemed to her indifference to any sort of danger--the courage of the hopeless life, maybe. [Please select]
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