Associations to the word «Remission»

Wiktionary

REMISSION, noun. A lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.
REMISSION, noun. A pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense.
REMISSION, noun. (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease.
REMISSION, noun. (legal) Referral of a case back to a lower (inferior) court of law.

Dictionary definition

REMISSION, noun. An abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission".
REMISSION, noun. A payment of money sent to a person in another place.
REMISSION, noun. (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court).
REMISSION, noun. The act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance.

Wise words

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Francis Bacon