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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

demissive en · ADJ

Etymology

From demiss + -ive.

Meanings

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

Forms

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