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Dismiss

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to send someone away, remove them from a position, or reject an idea without consideration
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Stage 1 of 2
dimittere
Latin · ancient
"to send away"
to send away, from dis- (apart) and mittere (to send)
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Stage 2 of 2
dismiss
English · 1400s
"to send someone away, or to reject an idea"
settled as the English word for sending someone away or rejecting an idea
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