Remission

Noun

 * 1) A lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.
 * 2) A pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense.
 * 3)  An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease.
 * Her cancer was in remission.
 * 1)  Referring a case back to a lower (inferior) court of law.

Thesaurus
abatement, abeyance, absolution, acquittal, acquittance, allayment, alleviation, amnesty, assuagement, attrition, blunting, break, caesura, calming, catabasis, cease-fire, clearance, clearing, collapse, compurgation, crash, curtailment, cut, cutting, damping, day off, deadening, deceleration, declension, decline, decline and fall, decrease, decrement, decrescendo, deliverance, demulsion, depletion, depreciation, derogation, destigmatization, destigmatizing, detraction, diminuendo, diminution, dip, discharge, disculpation, dismissal, disparagement, dive, downtrend, downturn, drop, dulcification, dulling, dwindling, easing, ebb, ebbing, exculpation, excuse, exemption, exoneration, extraction, fall, falling-off, forgiveness, grace, hesitation, holiday, hushing, immunity, impairment, indemnity, indulgence, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interval, lapse, layoff, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lull, lulling, mitigation, modulation, mollification, pacification, palliation, pardon, pause, plunge, purgation, purging, quietening, quieting, quietus, quittance, recess, redemption, reduction, relaxation, release, remission of sin, reprieve, respite, rest, retraction, retreat, retrenchment, shortening, shrift, shrinkage, slackening, slowdown, slump, softening, soothing, sparing, stand-down, stay, subduement, subsidence, suspension, tempering, tranquilization, truce, truncation, vacation, verdict of acquittal, vindication, wane

Translations

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 * Italian:


 * Manx: maih


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: lieveneminen, elpymävaihe, remissio


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (かんかい, kankai)


 * Finnish:


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Related terms

 * remit
 * remittance
 * remittal
 * remittent
 * remitter
 * remittor

Anagrams

 * missioner

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