Dismission
[dis'miʃәn]
Definition
(n.) The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.
(n.) Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace.
(n.) Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.
Editor: Ricky
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Permission to go, leave to depart.[2]. Discharge, removal from office.
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Examples
- My conduct may, I fear, be objectionable in having accepted my dismission from your daughter's lips instead of your own. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I did hope to have been there in 1783, but could not obtain my dismission from this employment here; and now I fear I shall never have that happiness. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Typist: Moira