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Definition of Remission

Remission The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up. Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc. Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation. 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. The act of sending back. Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance. Related Definitions: Abatement, Act, And, As, Back, Claim, Completely, Debt, Diminution, Discharge, Disease, Due, For, Force, Forfeiture, From, Giving, In, Incomplete, Intensity, Intermission, Is, Leaves, Money, Obligation, Of, Or, Pain, Pardon, Patient, Payment, Penalty, Relaxation, Release, Relinquishment, Remittance, Remitting, Resigning, Right, Sending, Subsidence, Surrendering, Temporary, That, The, Time, Transgression, Up, Violence, Which

Remission Quotations Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. Saint Augustine I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace. Richard Cobden The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. James A. Garfield

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