demissness

noun

demissness

noun

Etymology From demiss + -ness.

1

Obsolete The state or quality of being demiss; humility, submissiveness.

  • Therefore name they it sacred and divine, and it concerns not them whether the violence of tyrants, or the demissnesse [tr. lascheté] of the people be against them., Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.186

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