demission
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Deep was the grief of the brethren of Three Fountains when they were summoned to attend the sacred office of demission which was to shut out Waldo for ever from intercourse with his fellows.
From A Child's Book of Saints by T. H. (Thomas Heath) Robinson
This document is now usually styled a "demit," and should specify the good standing of the bearer at the time of his resignation or demission.
From The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
I hope your Royal Highness will now accept of my demission.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Mrs. Thomson
There is, however, one case of demission for which a special law has been enacted.
From The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
One of these hospitable pastors was the Rev. Gurdon Saltonstall, of New London, who twenty years later, as governor of the colony, presided at the debate which followed upon the demission of Rector Cutler.
From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon
