dismission noun. [dɪs'mɪʃ(ǝ)n] Now rare. M16.
[from DISMISS verb + -ION, after French desmission (now démission): see DEMISSION noun¹.]
1. Removal from office or employment; discharge. Also, a notice of discharge. M16.

2. Release from confinement; liberation. E17.

3. The action of sending a person away; permission to go. Formerly freq., an official send-off. E17.
b. The action of sending assembled persons away in various directions; dispersal; disbandment. M17.

4. Rejection, discarding; spec. repudiation of a wife. E17.

5. The action of dispelling or banishing from the mind. M18.

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