remission

Definitions

1. 1.The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.
2. 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. Matt. xxvi.
3. 3.That ples, therefore, . . . Will gain thee no remission. Milton.
4. 4.Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
5. 5.(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.
6. 6.The act of sending back. [R.] Stackhouse.
7. 7.Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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