demiss

English

Alternative forms

• demisse (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Adjective

demiss (comparative more demiss, superlative most demiss)

1. (archaic) Humble, lowly; abject.
   • 1595, Barnabe Barnes, A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets‎^[1], 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, 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,^[2]

     […] 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 […]

Derived terms

• demissive
• demissly
• demissness

 

Anagrams

• Deisms, deisms, dismes, missed