Demise vs Decease - What's the difference?
demise | decease |
(legal) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.
Death.
End (less common, usually in a negative manner).
(transitive, obsolete, legal) To give.
(legal) To convey, as by will or lease.
(legal) To transmit by inheritance.
(legal) To pass by inheritance.
To die.
(formal) death
(obsolescent) Departure, especially departure from this life
To die.
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As nouns the difference between demise and decease
is that demise is the conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter while decease is death.As verbs the difference between demise and decease
is that demise is to give while decease is to die.demise
English
(wikipedia demise)Noun
(en noun)- The lack of funding ultimately led to the demise of the project.
Verb
(demis)Anagrams
* ----decease
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Noun
(death) (-)Verb
(deceas)- After which usurped victorie, he presently deceased : and partly through the excessive joy he thereby conceived.
