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remission

Dictionary definition · remission

noun

  1. an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)"his cancer is in remission"
  2. a payment of money sent to a person in another place
  3. (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
  4. the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).