meaning of remission
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.
3. Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
4. 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.
6. Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.
7. the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
Related Words
remission | remission of sin |
