remittal Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Re*mit"tal noun
Definitions
  1. A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. Swift.

Webster 1913