The act or process of dismissing someone, usually from military service, often with formal ceremony and disgrace.
Present participle of 'cashier,' from Dutch/French origins. Used as both a noun and adjective to describe the formal process of disgraceful dismissal.
Dickens and Victorian novels are full of references to cashiering—it was the scandal of the age, creating penniless, disgraced men who appear as tragic figures in the literature of the 1800s.
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