† deˈmissness Obs. or arch.
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
Dejectedness, submissiveness, humility, abased manner.
| 1603 Florio Montaigne 147 Cato..blamed them for their demissnesse. 1649 Bulwer Pathomyot. ii. v. 168 Exhibiting an humble reverence, with a sweet demisseness. 1888 Bryce Amer. Commw. III. lxxxvii. 161 A kind of independence of manner..very different from the demissness of the humbler classes of the Old World. |