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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Downcast; humble; abject.
  2. In botany, depressed; flattened.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Humble, lowly; abject.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Cast down; humble; submissive.

Examples

  • “He perceived that the Liberal ministry had offended certain influential sections by appearing too demiss or too unenterprising in foreign affairs.”

    Archaism.

  • “Yet charitable readers will believe that in the following sentence demiss has slipped unconsciously from a learned pen:”

    Archaism.

  • “De concessione demiss, Edwardo Ditchfield et aliis.”

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  • “But the present bunch now occupying the majority of this government are accelerating our demiss and I am not going to sit idly by and allow them free passage to do it.”

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  • “We need to demiss this idea that debt is a good thing that will help us grow.”

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