賤しず

noun

lowly person; lowliness

Archaic noun referring to a person of low social status or the quality of being lowly. Not used in modern Japanese outside historical or literary contexts.

• 古ふるい文ぶん献けんには、賤しずの身み分ぶんについての記き述じゅつがある。

  Old documents contain descriptions of the lowly class.

pronoun

I (humble, archaic, male entertainers)

Only with reading しず

Archaic humble first-person pronoun historically used by male entertainers. Extremely rare and not used in modern Japanese.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの芸げい人にんが「しずが参まいりました」と言いう場ば面めんがある。

  There is a scene where an Edo-period entertainer says, 'I have come.'