demiss
Adjective
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Adjective
demiss
- (archaic) Humble, lowly; abject.
- 1595, Barnabe Barnes, A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets, London: John Windet, Sonnet 31,
- 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 (minister), 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 […]
- 1595, Barnabe Barnes, A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets, London: John Windet, Sonnet 31,
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