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deˈmurity rare.
In 5 demeurte.
[Answers to OF. meurté, as demure does to OF. meur: cf. quot. 1483.]
1. Demure quality, demureness.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 34/1 Joyne..demeurte to thy gladnes, and humylyte to thy demeurte [Fr. et meurte a leesement et humilite a la meurte]. a1704T. Brown Wks. (1760) II. 182 (D.) They pretend to such demurity as to form a society for the Regulation of Manners. 1889Besant Bell of St. Paul's III. 271 The demurity went out of her face.
2. An embodiment of demureness; a demure character or person. (Cf. oddity.)
18..Lamb Let. to Southey (L.), She will act after the fashion of Richardson's demurities. |