Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of sending away; leave or command to depart; dismissal: as, the dismission of the grand jury.
- noun Removal from office or employment; discharge; in universities, the sending away of a student without all the penalties attending expulsion.
- noun In law, a decision that a suit is not or cannot be maintained; rejection as unworthy of being noticed or granted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal.
- noun Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace.
- noun Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
dismissing orsending away (someone). - noun Removal from office; termination of employment or services.
- noun The setting aside (of something) from consideration.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun official notice that you have been fired from your job
- noun the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
Etymologies
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Examples
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From heaven John had received his command, and he would go on in his work till he thence received his countermand, and would have his dismission from the same hand that gave him his commission.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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“I did expect my conduct in this great question the vote on independence would have procured my dismission from the great Council, but find myself disappointed, for the Convention has thought proper to return me in the new delegation,” he confided to Joseph Reed.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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“I did expect my conduct in this great question the vote on independence would have procured my dismission from the great Council, but find myself disappointed, for the Convention has thought proper to return me in the new delegation,” he confided to Joseph Reed.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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He nodded without speaking, that dismission disguised as courtesy and good training, and turned his shoulders to continue his day, away from her.
LYES 2009
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He nodded without speaking, that dismission disguised as courtesy and good training, and turned his shoulders to continue his day, away from her.
LYES Maria Elena Montero 2009
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Drawn by a total revulsion of ideas from the chain of thinking that had led him to composition, he relinquished his annotations in resentment of this dismission, when he might have pursued them uninterruptedly without neglect of other avocations.
Camilla 2008
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Enchanted by so unexpected a dismission, his favourite scheme of life seemed accorded to him, and he pressed Camilla to his bosom, in a transport of joy.
Camilla 2008
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No! – I will remain here but to let her know I acquiesce in her dismission, and to learn in what form she has communicated our breach to her friends. '
Camilla 2008
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She wished it to be completely re-written; protesting, that a man who, in all probability, was a mere fortune-hunter, would infer from so gentle a dismission encouragement rather than repulse.
Camilla 2008
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She saw with pleasure that all Bellamy had inspired was the most artless compassion; for since his dismission had now positively been given, and Clermont was actually summoned, she devoted her thoughts solely to the approaching event, with the firm, though early wisdom which distinguished her character.
Camilla 2008
qroqqa commented on the word dismission
But Savage easily reconciled himself to mankind without imputing any defect to his work, by observing that his poem was unluckily published two days after the prorogation of the parliament, and by consequence at a time when all those who could be expected to regard it were in the hurry of preparing for their departure, or engaged in taking leave of others upon their dismission from publick affairs.
—Johnson, life of Richard Savage
December 11, 2008
qms commented on the word dismission
Our rights he erodes by attrition
And justice withholds by omission.
Our gov is gazumped
Or, worse yet, it’s Trumped,
Unless we achieve a dismission.
October 20, 2017
yarb commented on the word dismission
"...his dismission, in all probability, would have produced some dangerous convulsion in the community..."
— Smollett, Peregrine Pickle
January 17, 2022