Unsubmissibles

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Individuals or groups who refuse to yield or comply with authority, resisting control or submission in any form ; persons characterized by a strong will that rejects subordination or obedience to external demands ; entities marked by a determined stance against yielding to pressure or conforming to imposed rules
2. Those who actively oppose acquiescing to others' commands or influence, maintaining independence and defiance ; people demonstrating a refusal to accept domination or enforced compliance ; agents of resistance who decline to be submissive or to follow orders imposed by others
3. Characters or collectives that exhibit noncompliance with directives intended to enforce obedience ; beings that assert their autonomy by declining to succumb to overpowering or ruling forces ; anyone showing resilience against submission through steadfast refusal to be governed or controlled

Etymology: "Unsubmissibles" is the plural of "unsubmissible," which is "un-" plus "submissible," itself built from "submiss-" (from Latin "submittere," "to put under, lower, yield") and the suffix "-ible," meaning "able to be." So the base idea is something that can be made to submit, and the prefix reverses it: something that cannot be made to yield. The word is a rare, largely modern formation in English, and it is not a term with a long recorded history of its own. Its pieces are old and productive, which is why it is easy to build, but the compound itself appears only sparingly in print. Readers meeting it will understand it from its parts, since "submit" and "-ible" are both familiar, and the sense is transparent: a noun for beings or groups that will not bow to control.