What is "demises"

Usage examples of "demises".

I gaze across the monastery fields toward Tsering's biochemical swan song, the incarnation of myriad other small human demises which have preceded him, and find it hard to even conceptualize Gaia's premise that death and fertility share the same energy fervor.

Whispers of what had caused their demises were only that and repeated with care.

There the famous antiquary registering what demises marked the year 1598 (our March 25, 1598, to March 24, 1599), adds to his list Edmund Spenser, and thus writes of him: 'Ed.