demission

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Her soul from earth to Heaven lies, Like the ladder of the vision, Whereon go To and fro, In ascension and demission, Star-flecked feet of Paradise.

From Poems by Thompson, Francis

In one held at Paris in 1239, he procured the establishment of this regulation, that a voluntary demission of a superior, founded upon just reasons, should be accepted.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban

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 Robinson, T. H. (Thomas Heath)

Chamberlain and Fawcett … are using the opportunity to demand the demission of Hartington and the return of Gladstone.

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

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 Bacon, Leonard Woolsey