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Meaning of demiss | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

Humble, lowly; abject.

archaic

Examples

“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 […]”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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