Demean

[De*mean·]

To demean someone is to insult them. To demean is to degrade or put down a person or thing.

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To manage; to conduct; to treat.

Verb
reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"

v. t.
To manage; to conduct; to treat.

v. t.
To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.

v. t.
To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.

v. t.
Management; treatment.

v. t.
Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.

n.
Demesne.

n.
Resources; means.

Demean

De*mean" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demeaned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Demeaning.] [OF. demener to conduct, guide, manage, F. se d'82mener to struggle pref. d'82- (L. de) + mener to lead, drive, carry on, conduct, fr. L. minare to drive animals by threatening cries, fr. minari to threaten. See Menace.] 1. To manage; to conduct; to treat.

[Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.

2. To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.

They have demeaned themselves Like men born to renown by life or death.

They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions.

3. To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.

Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.

&hand; This sense is probably due to a false etymology which regarded the word as connected with the adjective mean.

Demean

De*mean" , n. [OF. demene. See Demean, v. t.] 1. Management; treatment. [Obs.]

Vile demean and usage bad.

2. Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor. [Obs.]

With grave demean and solemn vanity.

Demean

De*mean", n. [See Demesne.] 1. Demesne. [Obs.] 2. pl. Resources; means. [Obs.]

You know How narrow our demeans are.

To manage; to conduct; to treat.

Management; treatment.

Demesne.

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Usage Examples

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

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Other Usage Examples

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.