amission

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English

Etymology

Latin amissio: compare French amission.

Noun

amission

  1. (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.

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