Definition of "demission" [de•mis•sion]

• Relinquishment of an office or function. (noun)

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• "And that this demission of our royal authority may have the more full and solemn effect, and none pretend ignorance, we give, grant, and commit, fall and free and plain power to our trusty cousins, Lord Lindesay of the"
• "After the demission of Richardson and Ruckelshaus, Bork voluntarily carried out the order to fire Cox."
• "In one held at Paris in 1239, he procured the establishment of this regulation, that a voluntary demission of a superior, founded upon just reasons, should be accepted."