demissness

English

Etymology

demiss +‎ -ness

Noun

demissness (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The state or quality of being demiss; humility, submissiveness.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.186:

     Therefore name they it sacred and divine, and it concerns not them whether the violence of tyrants, or the demissnesse [tr. lascheté] of the people be against them.