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Disgrace vs Demean - What's the difference?

disgrace | demean |

As nouns the difference between disgrace and demean

is that disgrace is disgrace while demean is (archaic) management; treatment or demean can be demesne.

As a verb demean is

to debase; to lower; to degrade or demean can be to manage; to conduct; to treat.

disgrace

Noun

(en noun)
  • The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Macduff lives in disgrace .
  • The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.
  • That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.
  • (obsolete) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • the interchange continually of favours and disgraces

    Verb

  • To disrespect another; to put someone out of favor.
  • demean

    English

    Etymology 1

    (1595) From . Compare English (m).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To debase; to lower; to degrade.
  • * Thackeray
  • Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.
  • To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
  • To mortify.
  • Synonyms
    * debase * lower * degrade

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To manage; to conduct; to treat.
  • * Milton
  • [Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.
  • To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.
  • * Shakespeare
  • They have demeaned themselves / Like men born to renown by life or death.
  • * Clarendon
  • They answered that they should demean themselves according to their instructions.

    Noun

  • (archaic) Management; treatment.
  • * Spenser
  • vile demean and usage bad
  • (archaic) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.5:
  • *:‘When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes / Of his demeane […].’
  • * West
  • with grave demean and solemn vanity

    Etymology 3

    Var. of demesne.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • demesne.
  • resources; means.
  • Anagrams

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