Read full poem →To tell the Beauty would decrease
To state the Spell demean --
There is a syllable-less Sea
Dictionary Entry
To debase; to lower; to degrade.
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Common Phrases
himself demeanthemselves demeanmyself demeanherself demeanourselves demeanyourself demean
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Poetry examples for “demean”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Are thy returns! ev'n as the flowers in spring;
To which, besides their own demean,
The late-past frosts tributes of pleasure bring.
Read full poem →But ill it suits thee in the stubs to glean.
O Poverty! how basely you demean
The imprison’d worth your rigid fates confine: