different between demission vs demit

English

Etymology

From French démission, from Latin d?missi?, from d?mitt?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??m??(?)n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??m???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

demission (plural demissions)

1. (archaic) Resignation; abdication.
   • 1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot

     And that this demission of our royal authority may have the more full and solemn effect, and none pretend ignorance, we give [our cousins authority] ... in our name and behalf, publicly, and in their presence, to renounce the Crown, guidance, and government of this our kingdom of Scotland.

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 226:

     She had just slipped her demission, with a footnote on the young lady's conduct, under the door of Madame.

Related terms

• demit
• demise

Anagrams

• Simonides, minisodes, missioned, simonised

English

Etymology

From Latin d?mitt? (“send or bring down, let fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??m?t/

Verb

demit (third-person singular simple present demits, present participle demitting, simple past and past participle demitted)

1. (transitive) To let fall; to depress; to yield.
2. To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge.

Related terms

• demise
• demission
• mission

Noun

demit (plural demits)

1. The act of demitting.
2. A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.

Anagrams

• Tedim, timed

Latin

Verb

d?mit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of d?m?