† demissnessn.
Obsolete or archaic.
Dejectedness, submissiveness, humility, abased manner.
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the mind > emotion > humility > [noun]
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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xliv. 147 Cato..blamed them, for their demissenesse.
1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia ii. v. 168 Exhibiting an humble reverence, with a sweet demisseness.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. lxxxvii. 161 A kind of independence of manner..very different from the demissness of the humbler classes of the Old World.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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