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Entry 6 senses Webster, 1913

Remission

/(r?-m?sh"?n)/ · Re·mis·sion · IPA /ɹəˈmɪʃ(ə)n/
01 n. The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.
  1. 1.
    The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.
  2. 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. 3.
    Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
  4. 4.
    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.(Med.)
  5. 5.
    The act of sending back.[R.]
  6. 6.
    Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.