What does dismission mean?

Definitions for dismission
dis·mis·sion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dismissal, dismission, pink slipnoun

    official notice that you have been fired from your job

  2. dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sackingnoun

    the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

Wiktionary

  1. dismissionnoun

    The act of dismissing or sending away (someone).

  2. dismissionnoun

    Removal from office; termination of employment or services.

  3. dismissionnoun

    The setting aside (of something) from consideration.

  4. Etymology: From dismiss.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Dismissionnoun

    Etymology: from demissio, Latin.

    So pois’d, so gently she descends from high,
    It seems a soft dismission from the sky. John Dryden, Hind and Pant.

    Not only thou degrad’st them, or remit’st
    To life obscure, which were a fair dismission;
    But throw’st them lower than thou didst exalt them high. John Milton, Agonistes, l. 687.

    You must not stay here longer; your dismission
    Is come from Cæsar. William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra.

ChatGPT

  1. dismission

    Dismission refers to the act of officially discharging or dismissing someone from a position of duty or responsibility. It can also refer to the termination, cessation, or discontinuation of a particular action, procedure, or state. It's often used in legal, employment, or academic contexts.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dismissionnoun

    the act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury

  2. Dismissionnoun

    removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace

  3. Dismissionnoun

    rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration

  4. Etymology: [Cf. L. dimissio.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. dismission

    A summary discharge from the service; which a court-martial is empowered to inflict on any officer convicted of a breach of special laws, though it cannot for minor offences which formerly carried death!

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dismission in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dismission in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4


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