remission
See also: rémission
English
Etymology
From Old French remission (compare French rémission), from Latin remissio (“release”). Compare remit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈmɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -ɪʃən
Noun
remission (countable and uncountable, plural remissions)
- A lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.
- A pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense, or relinquishment of a claim.
- (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease.
- Her cancer was in remission.
- An official or otherwise recognized process or attempt of stopping an addiction.
- (law) Referral of a case back to a lower (inferior) court of law.
Translations
lessening of amount due
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pardon of a sin
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medicine: abatement or lessening of a disease
legal: referral of a case back to a lower court
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See also
- (medicine): relapse
- reemission
Finnish
Interlingua
Old French
Alternative forms
- remissiun (Anglo-Norman)
Noun
remission f (oblique plural remissions, nominative singular remission, nominative plural remissions)
- remission (pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (remission, supplement)
- remissiun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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