The act of dismissing or sending away (someone).
Removal from office; termination of employment or services, or position in ones affections.
The setting aside (of something) from consideration.
The act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid.
The resignation of an ecclesiastical office.
In the Anglican baptismal service, the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the Devil and all his works.
The act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another.