demit
Meanings
verb
- To let fall; to depress; to yield.
- To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge.
noun
- The act of demitting.
- A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
From Latin dēmittō (“send or bring down, let fall”).
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