demeaning

Verb (1)

demean (third-person singular simple present demeans, present participle demeaning, simple past and past participle demeaned)

1. (transitive) To debase; to lower; to degrade.
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   discredit, humiliate, slur

2. (transitive) To humble; to humiliate.

   Synonyms:

   bring low, embarrass, mortify, abase, abash, confuse, confound, debase, degrade, depress

3. (transitive) To mortify.

Verb (2)

demean (third-person singular simple present demeans, present participle demeaning, simple past and past participle demeaned)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To 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. (archaic, transitive) To 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...

Verb (3)

demean (third-person singular simple present demeans, present participle demeaning, simple past and past participle demeaned)

1. (transitive) To 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

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