demiss

Alternative forms

 * demisse

Etymology
From, past participle of.

Adjective

 * 1)  Humble, lowly; abject.
 * 2) * 1660,, 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
 * 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