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Definition of Demeans
1. demean [v] - See also: demean
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demeans
Literary usage of Demeans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of Tenures,: In Two Parts; Containing, I. The Original, Nature by Geoffrey Gilbert (1757)
"If a man let parcel of the demeans for life, ... held of him as lord of the whole
demeans, and therefore (hull pafs by a-grant of the manor; but if a manor ..."
2. Sidonia the Sorceress: The Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal by Wilhelm Meinhold, Wilde (1894)
"However, nobody minded the good knight, though it all came to pass just as he
had prophesied. CHAPTER XV. How Sidonia demeans herself at the castle of ..."
3. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1873)
"... certainly demeans himself like a kind and liberal gentleman, in throwing open
this invaluable collection to the public to see, and for artists to carry ..."
4. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk by Francis Blomefield, Charles Parkin (1808)
"... 2*. of the demeans of the Earl Warren, to be paid by the prior of Windham ;—in
Stanford, 2 parts of the demeans of Robert de Mortimer;—in ..."
5. The History of the Life and Acts of the Most Reverend Father in God, Edmund by John Strype (1821)
"The said lease made to Kerrie came after to one Hill, " who, finding the weakness
of the covenant contained in " that lease, did cause the said demeans to ..."
6. The Law of Tenures, Including the Theory and Practice of Copyholds by Sir Geoffrey Gilbert, Charles Watkins, Robert Studley Vidal (1824)
"... it is therefore a payment in his own wrong, and it still remains in arrear to
me ; but if I am dis- Ld.Raym.862. seised of the demeans of my manor, ..."
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