Remission

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Remission \Re*mis"sion\ (r?-m?sh"?n), n. [F. r['e]mission, L.
     remissio. See {Remit}.]
     1. The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving
        up.
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     2. Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a
        claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression;
        release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.
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              This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed
              for many for the remission of sins.   --Matt. xxvi.
                                                    28.
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              That ples, therefore, . . .
              Will gain thee no remission.          --Milton.
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     3. Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
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     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.
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     5. The act of sending back. [R.] --Stackhouse.
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     6. Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  remission
       n 1: an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the
            manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in
            remission" [syn: {remittal}, {subsidence}]
       2: a payment of money sent to a person in another place [syn: {remittance},
           {remittal}, {remitment}]
       3: (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law
          case to another court) [syn: {remitment}, {remit}]
       4: the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as
          pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance [syn: {absolution},
           {remittal}, {remission of sin}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  140 Moby Thesaurus words for "remission":
     abatement, abeyance, absolution, acquittal, acquittance, allayment,
     alleviation, amnesty, assuagement, attrition, blunting, break,
     caesura, calming, catabasis, cease-fire, clearance, clearing,
     collapse, compurgation, crash, curtailment, cut, cutting, damping,
     day off, deadening, deceleration, declension, decline,
     decline and fall, decrease, decrement, decrescendo, deliverance,
     demulsion, depletion, depreciation, derogation, destigmatization,
     destigmatizing, detraction, diminuendo, diminution, dip, discharge,
     disculpation, dismissal, disparagement, dive, downtrend, downturn,
     drop, dulcification, dulling, dwindling, easing, ebb, ebbing,
     exculpation, excuse, exemption, exoneration, extraction, fall,
     falling-off, forgiveness, grace, hesitation, holiday, hushing,
     immunity, impairment, indemnity, indulgence, interim, interlude,
     intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interval,
     lapse, layoff, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening,
     loosening, lull, lulling, mitigation, modulation, mollification,
     pacification, palliation, pardon, pause, plunge, purgation,
     purging, quietening, quieting, quietus, quittance, recess,
     redemption, reduction, relaxation, release, remission of sin,
     reprieve, respite, rest, retraction, retreat, retrenchment,
     shortening, shrift, shrinkage, slackening, slowdown, slump,
     softening, soothing, sparing, stand-down, stay, subduement,
     subsidence, suspension, tempering, tranquilization, truce,
     truncation, vacation, verdict of acquittal, vindication, wane
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  REMISSION, civil law. A release. 
       2. The remission of the debt is either conventional, when it is 
  expressly granted to the debtor by a creditor having a capacity to alienate; 
  or tacit, when the creditor voluntarily surrenders to his debtor the 
  original title under private signature constituting the obligation. Civ. 
  Code of Lo. art. 2195. 
       3. By remission is also understood a forgiveness or pardon of an 
  offence. It has the effect of putting back the offender into the same 
  situation he was before the commission of the offence. Remission is 
  generally granted in cases where the offence was involuntary, or committed 
  in self defence. Poth. Pr. Civ. sec t. 7, art. 2, Sec. 2. 
       4. Remission is also used by common lawyers to express the act by which 
  a forfeiture or penalty is forgiven. 10 Wheat. 246.