transitive verb
-·mit′ted, -·mit′ting- to resign (a position or office)
- Archaic to dismiss
Origin of demit
Classical Latin demittere, to send down, let fall from de-, down + mittere, to send: see mission to resign
verb
Demit is defined as to quit or fire.
An example of demit is to leave one's job after 10 years.
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demit
verb
de·mit·ted, de·mit·ting, de·mitsverb
transitive- To relinquish (an office or function).
- Archaic To dismiss.
verb
intransitiveTo give up an office or position; resign.
Origin of demit
Middle English dimitten to release from Old French demettre from Latin dīmittere dis- away ; see dis- . mittere to sendTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present demits, present participle demitting, simple past and past participle demitted)
- To let fall; to depress; to yield.
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Origin
See also: démitFrom Latin dēmittō (“send or bring down, let fall”).
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Sentence Examples
- 3, 22, 2) expresses it, "Nec regi aut populo jus demit summi imperii."
- He holds his office ad vitam aut culpam; he cannot demit it or be deprived, of it without consent of the presbytery.