amission

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.

Related terms

• amiss
• amissible

References

• “amission”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.