demiss
English
Alternative forms
- demisse (obsolete)
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dēmissus, past participle of dēmittō (“demit”).
Adjective
demiss (comparative more demiss, superlative most demiss)
- (archaic) Humble, lowly; abject.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- 1595, Barnabe Barnes, A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets, London: John Windet, Sonnet 31,[1]
- 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 […]