remission

Meanings

Noun

an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
- "his cancer is in remission"
a payment of money sent to a person in another place
(law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
A pardon of a sin; (chiefly historical, also figuratively) the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a (legal) claim or a debt.
A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.
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.
A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.
An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent.
A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.
An act of remitting, returning, or sending back.
An act of remitting, returning, or sending back.
A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal.
Reflection or back-scattering of light by a material; (to send back)

Verb

To change the mission of; to provide with a new mission.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English remissioun (“release from duty; freeing of captives; mercy, pardon, respite; forgiveness; release from or reduction of penances; reduction in intensity (of a quality, symptom, etc.); transfer of property, quitclaim; legal opinion or submission; reference, cross-reference”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman remission, remissione, remissioun, remissiun and Middle French, Old French remission (“forgiveness of sin; pardoning of an offence; postponement; cessation, suspension; diminishing or weakening of something; reduction of debt; reduction in intensity of a disease or symptom”) (modern French rémission), and their etymon Late Latin remissiō (“forgiveness; pardon of sins”), Latin remissiō (“release; sending back; easing off, relaxing, softening; reduction of debt; reduction in intensity of a disease or symptom”), from remittō (“to remit, send back; to diminish; to relax; to do without, forego”) + -siō. Remittō is derived from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + mittō (“to cause to go; to send; to discharge, emit, let go, release; to throw; to extend, reach out; to announce, tell; to produce, yield; to attend, escort, guide; to dismiss, disregard; to end”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to change, exchange; to change places, go past”) or *(s)meyt- (“to throw”)).
The English word is cognate with Catalan remissió, Italian remissioni, remissione (“remission; withdrawal of legal action; compliance, submission”), Old Occitan remessió, Portuguese remisson, remissão (“pardon; remission”), Spanish remisión (“remission”).

Synonyms

absolution, acceptilation, anesis, remission of sin, remit, remitment, remittal, remittance, remittence, subsidence

Antonyms

irremission

Scrabble Score: 11

remission is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
remission is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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Words With Friends Score: 13

remission is a valid Words With Friends word