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demissive

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English

Etymology

From demiss +‎ -ive.

Adjective

demissive (comparative more demissive, superlative most demissive)

  1. downcast; submissive; humble
    • 1630, Henry Lord, A Display of Two Forraigne Sects in the East-Indies:
      They pray with demissive eyelids.

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