amission
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Latin amissio: compare French amission.
Noun
[edit]amission
- (obsolete) deprivation; loss
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
- Why Geomancers do imitate the Quintuple Figure, in their Mother Characters of Acquisition and Amission, &c. somewhat answering the Figures in the Lady or speckled Beetle?
- 1677, Theophilus Gale, The court of the gentiles:
- the amission of God has taken up the name of sin.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “amission”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.