demiss

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Scrabble points
9
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10
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6

Definition of demiss

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (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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