demission
Example Sentences
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Je suis toujours affligée de voir mes amis se retirer de la vie active; mais je comprends les motifs qui vous ont dicté votre demission….
From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Laughton, John Knox
I hope your Royal Highness will now accept of my demission.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Thomson, Mrs.
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
Soon after, he signed his demission in form.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David
Barrere proposes a middle course:—Will not perhaps the inculpated Deputies consent to withdraw voluntarily; to make a generous demission, and self-sacrifice for the sake of one's country?
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
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