different between dismissal vs dismission

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

Derived terms

• letter of dismissal

Translations

English

Etymology

From dismiss.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?m??(?)n/

Noun

dismission (countable and uncountable, plural dismissions)

1. The act of dismissing or sending away (someone).

   • Though Mrs Honour was principally attached to her own interest, she was not without some little attachment to Sophia. […] She no sooner therefore heard a piece of news, which she imagined to be of great importance to her mistress, than, quite forgetting the anger which she had conceived two days before, at her unpleasant dismission from Sophia’s presence, she ran hastily to inform her of the news.

2. Removal from office; termination of employment or services.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 23:

     I told her […] that her dismission was intended for an indignity to me; that I was very sorry to be obliged to part with her, and hoped she would meet with as good a service.
3. The setting aside (of something) from consideration.

References

• dismission in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• dimissions