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demiss

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Humble, lowly; abject.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

Examples

  • 1660, Samuel Clarke, The Lives of Two and Twenty English Divines, London: Thomas Underhill and John Rothwell, “The Life and Death of Master William Bradshaw,” pp. 45-46, [...] Master Bradshaw was not a man of much out side, nor forward to put out himself, of a very bashfull and demiss, but not fawning deportment [...]

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Latin dēmissus, past participle of dēmittō (“demit”).