remission
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
remission
- A pardon#Noun|pardon of a sin#Noun|sin; (chiefly, historical, also, figuratively) the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a (legal) claim#Noun|claim or a debt.
- Synonyms: acceptilation
- Antonyms: irremission
- A lessening#Noun|lessening of amount#Noun|amount due#Adjective|due, as in either money or work#Noun|work, or intensity of a thing.
- (law) A reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal#Adjective|criminal offence; in particular, the reduction of a prison sentence#Noun|sentence as a recognition of the prisoner's good behaviour.
- Synonyms: remitment
- (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease#Noun|disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent.
- Synonyms: anesis, remittence
- Her cancer was in remission.
- (law) A reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal#Adjective|criminal offence; in particular, the reduction of a prison sentence#Noun|sentence as a recognition of the prisoner's good behaviour.
- An act#Noun|act of remit#Verb|remitting, return#Verb|returning, or sending back.
- (law) A referral of a case#Noun|case back to another (especially a lower#Adjective|lower or inferior#Adjective|inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal.
- French: rémission, pardon
- German: Erlass, Vergebung
- Italian: remissione
- Portuguese: remissão
- Russian: индульгенция
- Spanish: remisión
- Italian: remissione
- Italian: remissione, recesso
- Portuguese: remissão
- Italian: condonazione, condono
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