demean

present singular third person demeans · participle present demeaning · participle past demeaned · past demeaned

1. transitiveTo debase; to lower; to degrade.

   “No matter how GREAT my Achievements, they trivialize and demean.”

   2026 September 21, Peter Baker, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump Faces the Sting of a Media Boycott After Press Pool Withdrawal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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   It was, of course, Mrs. Sedley's opinion that her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.

   1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 6, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

   I liked to feel him attempt to demean me when I was sure there was no way he actually could.

   2026 June 12, Emily Ratajkowski, “Mother F*cker”, in The Cut

   Synonyms: discredit, humiliate, slur

2. transitiveTo humble; to humiliate.

   Synonyms: bring low, embarrass, mortify, abase, abash, bring low, confuse, confound

3. transitiveTo mortify.

present singular third person demeans · participle present demeaning · participle past demeaned · past demeaned

1. obsoletetransitiveTo manage; to conduct; to treat.

   But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.

   1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC

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

   they have demean'd themselves Like men born to renown by life or death.

   c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]

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

   1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater

plural demeans

1. obsoletetransitiveuncountableusuallyManagement; treatment.

   Pursu'd him streight, in mynd to bene ywroken / Of all the vile demeane, and vsage bad

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18

2. obsoletetransitiveuncountableusuallyBehavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.

   with grave demean and solemn vanity

   1739, Gilbert West, A canto of the Fairy Queen (later called On the Abuse of Travelling)

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   ‘When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes / Of his demeane […].’

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

plural demeans

1. transitivedemesne.
2. transitiveresources; means.

present singular third person demeans · participle present demeaning · participle past demeaned · past demeaned

1. transitivemathematicsTo 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.

   2013, Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Katrin Golsch, Alexander W. Schmidt, Applied Panel Data Analysis for Economic and Social Surveys, page 177