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Dismissal vs Relieving - What's the difference?

dismissal | relieving |

As a noun dismissal

is the act of sending someone away.

As a verb relieving is

.

As an adjective relieving is

that brings relief.

dismissal

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of sending someone away.
  • (senseid)Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
  • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.}}
  • A written or spoken statement of such an act.
  • Release from confinement; liberation.
  • Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.
  • (legal) The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
  • (cricket) The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.
  • relieving

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That brings relief.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 24:
  • *:Like a weary insomniac, France too greeted the relieving dawn chiefly longing for one thing only – repose.
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