Thesaurus: remission

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1. n. The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.
2. n. Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.
3. n. Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
4. n. 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. n. The act of sending back.
6. n. Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.
7. n. an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
8. n. a payment of money sent to a person in another place
9. n. (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
10. n. the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
11. A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violenceof a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in whichthe disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.