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demean¹

  • /dɪˈmiːn/ UK

Rhymes with -iːn

Where it comes from

(1595) From de- + mean (“lowly, base, common”), from Middle English mene, aphetic variation of imene (“mean, base, common”), from Old English ġemǣne (“mean, common”). Compare English bemean.

verb demeans · demeaning · demeaned

  1. transitive To debase; to lower; to degrade. It was, of course, Mrs. Sedley's opinion that her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.
  2. transitive To humble; to humiliate.
  3. transitive To mortify.

Similar: abase, bring down to size, cut down to size, debase, defame, degrade, demean, demote, depress, discredit, disgrace, dishonour

demean²

  • /dɪˈmiːn/ UK

Rhymes with -iːn

Where it comes from

From Middle English demenen, demeinen, from Anglo-Norman demener, from Old French demener, from de- + mener (“to conduct, lead”), from Latin mināre, from minārī (“to threaten”).

verb demeans · demeaning · demeaned

  1. obsolete, transitive To manage; to conduct; to treat. But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.
  2. archaic, transitive To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun. they have demean'd themselves Like men born to renown by life or death.

Similar: abase, bring down to size, cut down to size, debase, defame, degrade, demean, demote, depress, discredit, disgrace, dishonour

noun demeans

  1. obsolete, transitive, uncountable, usually Management; treatment. Pursu'd him streight, in mynd to bene ywroken / Of all the vile demeane, and vsage bad
  2. obsolete, transitive, uncountable, usually Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor. ‘When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes / Of his demeane […].’

demean³

  • /dɪˈmiːn/ UK

Rhymes with -iːn

Where it comes from

Variant of demesne.

noun demeans

  1. transitive demesne.
  2. transitive resources; means.

demean⁴

  • /ˌdiːˈmiːn/
  • /dɪˈmiːn/ UK

Rhymes with -iːn

Where it comes from

de- + mean

verb demeans · demeaning · demeaned

  1. transitive To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a data set). Concerning FE estimation, it makes no difference whether you demean the data with unit-specific means computed on (balanced) T observations per unit, or with unit-specific means computed on (unbalanced) Tᵢ observations per unit.

Similar: abase, bring down to size, cut down to size, debase, defame, degrade, demean, demote, depress, discredit, disgrace, dishonour

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