demission

de·mis·sion

noun

Relinquishment of an office or function.

Origin of demission

Middle English dimissioun from Anglo-Norman from Latin dīmissiō dīmissiōn- dismissal from dīmissus past participle of dīmittere to release ; see demit .

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Noun

(plural demissions)

(archaic) Resignation; abdication.

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Origin

From French dÃ©mission, from Latin dÄ“missiÅ, from dÄ“mittÅ.

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Mysticism is not the voluntary demission of reason and its subjection to an external authority.
The protest which the moderator had read before leaving the assembly had been left on the table; and an act of separation and deed of demission were received from the ministers of the newly formed Free Church, who were now declared to have severed their connexion with the Church of Scotland.

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