noun
- An abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease. )
- usage: "his cancer is in remission"
- synonyms: remittal, subsidence
- A payment of money sent to a person in another place.
- synonyms: remittance, remittal, remitment
- Law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court. ()
- The act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance.
- synonyms: absolution, remittal, remission of sin
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