demissive

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

demiss +‎ -ive

Adjective[edit]

demissive (comparative more demissive, superlative most demissive)

  1. downcast; submissive; humble
    • 1630, Henry Lord, A Display of Two Forraigne Sects in the East-Indies:
      They pray with demissive eyelids.
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