remission Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Re*mis"sion noun
Etymology
F. rémission, L. remissio. See Remit.
Definitions
  1. The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.
  2. 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. Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
  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.
  5. The act of sending back. R. Stackhouse.
  6. Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.

Webster 1913