Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
demiss. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
demiss, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
demiss in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
demiss you have here. The definition of the word
demiss will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
demiss, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
From Latin dēmissus, past participle of dēmittō (“demit”).
Adjective
demiss (comparative more demiss, superlative most demiss)
- (archaic) Humble, lowly; abject.
1595, Barnabe Barnes, A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets, London: John Windet, Sonnet 31: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,
- 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
Derived terms
Anagrams