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dismissal

English

Etymology

From dismiss +? -al. A nineteenth-century coinage (modelled on committal etc.), replacing the regular form dismission.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): [d?s?m?s??], [d?z?m?s??]

Noun

dismissal (countable and uncountable, plural dismissals)

  1. The act of sending someone away.
  2. Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
  3. A written or spoken statement of such an act.
  4. Release from confinement; liberation.
  5. Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.
  6. (law) The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
  7. (cricket) The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.
  8. (Christianity) The final blessing said by a priest or minister at the end of a religious service

Derived terms

  • letter of dismissal

Translations

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demission

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

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