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A Remission

  1. A pardon of a sin; (chiefly historical, also figuratively) the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a (legal) claim or a debt.

Synonym: acceptilation

Antonym: irremission

  1. A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.

2.1 (law) A reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence; in particular, the reduction of a prison sentence as a recognition of the prisoner's good behaviour.

Synonym: remitment

2.2 (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent.

Synonyms: anesis, remittence

  1. An act of remitting, returning, or sending back.

3.1 (law) A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal.

  1. (spectroscopy) Reflection or scattering of light by a material; reemission.
Usage notes

Not to be confused with reemission.