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Demures vs Lemures - What's the difference?

demures | lemures |

As a verb demures

is third-person singular of demure.

As a noun lemures is

the spirits or ghosts of the dead.

demures

English

Verb

(head)
  • (demure)

    • demure

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious.
    • She is a demure young lady.
  • * W. Black
    • Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes.
  • * '>citation
  • Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
  • * L'Estrange
    • A cat lay, and looked so demure , as if there had been neither life nor soul in her.
  • * Miss Mitford
    • Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head.

    Derived terms

    * demureness

    Verb

    (demur)
  • (obsolete) To look demurely.
    • Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes... shall acquire no Honour Demuring upon me.'' – Shakespeare (1623) ''Antony & Cleopatra Act 4, Sc 16, Ln 30

    lemures

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • The spirits or ghosts of the dead.
  • * (rfdate) (John Milton)
    • ''The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint.
    (Webster 1913)