Dialectal or archaic form meaning to send away or dismiss; variant of dimit.
From Latin dimittere 'to send away,' with dialect variations in spelling and pronunciation across different English-speaking regions and time periods.
Regional spelling variations like dimmit show how, before printing standardized English, different areas spelled Latin-derived words their own ways—your local pronunciation often influenced how you wrote it down.
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