A demise is the end or death of a person or an institution. The demise of the paper, his untimely demise, predict its demise.
It is formal and often faintly ironic, so newspapers use it for the collapse of a company or a fashion as much as for a death. In property law it has a technical sense: a demise is the transfer of an estate, usually by lease.
1noundemiseThe end or death of a person or an institution.
“The rise of online shopping led to the demise of many small bookshops.”
demise is an ending.
Middle French demise comes from demettre, to put down or dismiss, from Latin dimittere.
Latin
dēmissa
Middle French
démise
Middle English
demyse
English, today
demise
Built from
From Middle English demyse, dimise, dimisse, dymyse, from Middle French démise, the feminine singular past participle of démettre (“to put down, relinquish”); from Latin dēmissa, feminine singular of perfect passive participle of dēmittō. The "death" and "end" senses derive by way of euphemism from the legal sense, as a person's death was a common way that the legal demise could be accomplished. The verb is from Middle English dimisen, from the noun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA