Demissness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being demiss; humility, submissiveness. obsolete, uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From demiss + -ness.

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