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The polite word death wears to formal events.
means The end of something — a person's death, or the collapse/termination of a business, institution, or plan — stated with formal distance.
from From French démise, the feminine past participle of démettre, 'to dismiss' or 'put down,' rooted in Latin dimittere ('to send away, let go' — dis- 'apart' + mittere 'to send'). It started as English legal jargon for the transfer of an estate or title at death, the moment a crown or property was 'sent away' from one holder to the next. From there it slid from the paperwork of death into a euphemism for death itself, and later stretched to cover the quiet collapse of companies, empires, and plans.
- legal origin
- once meant transferring property or a lease by will
- monarchy term
- a crown's demise means power passing instantly, not vacancy
- register
- used for empires and companies, never for pets
- etymology
- from French mettre, to put or place, not destroy