REMISSION

n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


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. 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 remission. Milton.

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. [R.] Stackhouse.

6.
n.

Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.


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