Demission vs Remission - What's the difference?
demission | remission |
(archaic) Resignation; abdication.
* 1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot
*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.
A lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.
A pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense.
(medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease.
(legal) Referral of a case back to a lower (inferior ) court of law.
As nouns the difference between demission and remission
is that demission is resignation while remission is remission.demission
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Anagrams
* * *remission
English
Noun
(en noun)- Her cancer was in remission .