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Webster 1913 Edition
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.
This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the
remission
of sins. Matt. xxvi. 28.
That ples, therefore, . . .
Will gain thee no
Will gain thee no
remission
. Milton.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Remission
REMIS'SION
,Noun.
1.
Abatement; relaxation; moderation; as the remission of extreme rigor.2.
Abatement; diminution of intensity; as the remission of the sun's heat; the remission of cold; the remission of close study or of labor.3.
Release; discharge or relinquishment of a claim or right; as the remission of a tax or duty.4.
In medicine, abatement; a temporary subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as distinguished from intermission, in which the disease leaves the patient entirely for a time.5.
Forgiveness; pardon; that is, the giving up of the punishment due to a crime; as the remission of sins. Matt. 26. Heb. 9.6.
The act of sending back. [Not in use.]Definition 2024
remission
remission
See also: rémission
English
Noun
remission (plural remissions)
- A lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.
- A pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense.
- (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease.
- Her cancer was in remission.
- (law) Referral of a case back to a lower (inferior) court of law.
Translations
lessening of amount due
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pardon of a sin
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medicine: abatement or lessening of a disease
legal: referral of a case back to a lower court
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Related terms
See also
- (medicine): relapse
- reemission
Anagrams
Old French
Alternative forms
- remissiun (Anglo-Norman)
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin remissio.
Noun
remission f (oblique plural remissions, nominative singular remission, nominative plural remissions)
- remission (pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense)
Descendants
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (remission, supplement)
- remissiun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub