Demit vs. Remit — What's the Difference?

To relinquish (an office or function).

To transmit (money) in payment.

(Archaic) To dismiss.

To refrain from exacting (a tax or penalty, for example); cancel.

To give up an office or position; resign.

To pardon; forgive

(transitive) To let fall; to depress; to yield.

To restore to a former condition or position.

To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge.

To refer (a case) to another court for further consideration or action.

The act of demitting.

To refer (a matter) to a committee or authority for decision.

A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.

To allow to slacken

To let fall; to depress.

To transmit money.

To yield or submit; to humble; to lower; as, to demit one's self to humble duties.

To diminish; abate

To lay down, as an office; to resign.

A matter remitted for further consideration.

To lay down or relinquish an office, membership, authority, or the like; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge; - generally used with an implication that the act is voluntary.

Chiefly British An area of responsibility; scope.

The act of demitting; also, a letter, certificate, or the like, certifying that a person has (honorably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.

To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.

To restore.

To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.

To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.

To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.

To forgive; to pardon; to remove.

To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.

To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.

To send money, as in payment.

(law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)

Send (money) in payment;

Hold back to a later time;

Release from (claims, debts, or taxes);

Refer (a matter or legal case) to another committe or authority or court for decision

Forgive;

Make slack as by lessening tension or firmness

Diminish or abate;