What is downcast; submissive; humble. [R.] They pray with demissive eyelids. Lord (1630) called?
demissive — Downcast; submissive; humble. [R.] They pray with demissive eyelids. Lord (1630). (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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