demurity

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

demure +‎ -ity

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

demurity (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) demureness
    • 1702, Thomas Browne, Letters from the Dead to the Living:
      of late they pretend to ſuch Demurity as to form a Society for the Regulation of Manners

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for demurity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)