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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act of demitting.
2. 2
   A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.

Verb

1. 1
   To let fall; to depress; to yield. transitive
2. 2
   To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge.

Synonyms

All synonyms

abandonabdicatedepressdroopgive upleave

Etymology

From Latin dēmittō (“send or bring down, let fall”).

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