remission

Speech parts

1. remission - Noun

2. remission - Verb

Meaning

The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.

Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.

Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.

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.

The act of sending back.

Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.

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his cancer is in remission Source: Internet

According to this theology, baptism must be by immersion, for the remission of sins (meaning that through baptism, past sins are forgiven), and occurs after one has shown faith and repentance. Source: Internet

After the short remission Danlee recounted how Keith Olivier pulled the pool cue from her son’s eye. Source: Internet

After treatment, the cancer went into remission, but there was a recurrence in 1995, eventually metastasizing to her lungs and lymph nodes. Source: Internet

All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. Source: Internet

After a diagnosis is made, it remains is difficult to achieve complete remission of all symptoms with the currently available psychiatric medications and symptoms often become progressively more severe over time. Source: Internet

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