demission
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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
The Disruption controversy reached its climax immediately afterwards, and Blaikie, whose sympathies were entirely with Chalmers, was one of the 474 ministers who signed the deed of demission and gave up their livings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
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
Then were Avignon Emigrations, Papal Aristocrats emigrating over the Rhone River; demission of Papal Consul, flight, victory: re-entrance of Papal Legate, truce, and new onslaught; and the various turns of war.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
In view of this I will submit to a demission as the commander-in-chief of the Jastrzeb armed forces, land as well as naval.
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz
