demiss
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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- 9
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- 6
Definition of demiss
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(archaic)Humble, lowly; abject.
“Oh that I had whole westerne windes of breath, My voice and tongue should not bee so remisse: My notes should not bee so rare and demisse:”
“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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Etymology
From Latin dēmissus, past participle of dēmittō (“demit”).
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