remission

[re·mis·sion]

Remission refers to a stage of lesser intensity, when something subsides or improves. Remission is usually a good thing like when your cancer is in remission, it means that it is manageable and not getting any worse.

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The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.

Noun
the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance

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

Noun
an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission"

Noun
a payment of money sent to a person in another place


n.
The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.

n.
Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.

n.
Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.

n.
A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.

n.
The act of sending back.

n.
Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.


Remission

Re*mis"sion (r?-m?sh"?n), n. [F. r'82mission, L. remissio. See Remit.] 1. The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up. 2. Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.
This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
That ples, therefore, . . . Will gain thee no remission.
3. Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation. 4. (Med.) A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement. 5. The act of sending back. [R.] Stackhouse. 6. Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.

The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.

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Usage Examples

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

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