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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   a resignation from a lodge

Verb

1. 1
   To dismiss, let go, or release. obsolete
2. 2
   to resign

Etymology

From Latin dimittere (“to send away, let go”), from di-, dis- + mittere (“to send”). See dismiss and demit.

Related phrases

let go

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