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Demission vs Remission - What's the difference?

demission | remission |

As nouns the difference between demission and remission

is that demission is resignation while remission is remission.

demission

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) Resignation; abdication.
  • * 1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot
  • 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.
  • *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.
  • Anagrams

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    remission

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Her cancer was in remission .
  • (legal) Referral of a case back to a lower (inferior ) court of law.
  • See also

    * (medicine) relapse * reemission

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