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Dimission vs Demission - What's the difference?

dimission | demission |

As nouns the difference between dimission and demission

is that dimission is permission to depart; a dismissing while demission is resignation; abdication.

dimission

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) permission to depart; a dismissing
  • (Barrow)
    (Webster 1913)

    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.
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