remission

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=mis=sion

CIDE DICTIONARY

remission, n. [F. rémission, L. remissio. See Remit.].

•  The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.  [1913 Webster]
•  Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.  [1913 Webster]

  "This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."  [1913 Webster]

  "That ples, therefore, . . .
  Will gain thee no remission."  [1913 Webster]
•  Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of sending back.  Stackhouse.  [1913 Webster]
•  Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

remission, n.
1 the reduction of a prison sentence on account of good behaviour.
2 the remitting of a debt or penalty etc.
3 a diminution of force, effect, or degree (esp. of disease or pain).
4 (often foll. by of) forgiveness (of sins etc.).

Derivative

remissive adj.

Etymology

ME f. OF remission or L remissio (as REMIT)

THESAURUS

remission

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

ROGET THESAURUS

remission

Laxity

N laxity, laxness, looseness, slackness, toleration, freedom, anarchy, interregnum, relaxation, loosening, remission, dead letter, brutum fulmen, misrule, license, licentiousness, insubordination, lynch law, nihilism, reign of violence, dethronement, deposition, usurpation, abdication, lax, loose, slack, remiss, weak, relaxed, licensed, reinless, unbridled, anarchical, unauthorized, adespotic.

Cessation

N cessation, discontinuance, desistance, desinence, intermission, remission, suspense, suspension, interruption, stop, stopping, closure, stoppage, halt, arrival, pause, rest, lull, respite, truce, drop, interregnum, abeyance, cloture, dead stop, dead stand, dead lock, finis, cerrado, blowout, burnout, meltdown, disintegration, comma, colon, semicolon, period, full stop, end, death, I pause for a reply.

Moderation

N moderation, lenity, temperateness, gentleness, sobriety, quiet, mental calmness, moderating, anaphrodisia, relaxation, remission, mitigation, tranquilization, assuagement, contemporation, pacification, measure, juste milieu, golden mean, ariston metron, moderator, lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum, rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, poppy or mandragora, wet blanket, palliative, moderate, lenient, gentle, mild, mellow, cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured, tempered, calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still, slow, smooth, untroubled, tame, peaceful, peaceable, pacific, halcyon, unexciting, unirritating, soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive, anodyne, hypnotic, sedative, antiorgastic, anaphrodisiac, mild as mother's milk, milk and water, moderately, gingerly, piano, under easy sail, at half speed, within bounds, within compass, in reason, est modue in rebus, pour oil on troubled waters.

Forgiveness

N forgiveness, pardon, condonation, grace, remission, absolution, amnesty, oblivion, indulgence, reprieve, conciliation, reconcilement, reconciliation, propitiation, excuse, exoneration, quittance, release, indemnity, bill of indemnity, act of indemnity, covenant of indemnity, deed of indemnity, exculpation, longanimity, placability, amantium irae, locus paenitentiae, forbearance, forgiving, placable, conciliatory, forgiven, unresented, unavenged, unrevenged, cry you mercy, veniam petimusque damusque vicissim, more in sorrow than in anger, comprendre tout c'est tout pardonner, the offender never pardons.