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noun

Remission n.

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. "This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." "That ples, therefore,... Will gain thee no remission."

Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.

(Med.) 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. (R.)

Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.

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"Remission" Quotes from Famous Books

... th' ebb of Disease, by Perriodicity, th' ebb and also the flow, the paroxysm and the remission. These remit and recur, and keep tune like the tides, not in ague and remittent fever only, as the Profission imagines to this day, but in all diseases from a Scirrhus in the Pylorus t' a toothache. And I discovered this, and the new path to cure of all diseases it opens. Alone I did it; and what ...

— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

... had leisure to survey his features, I found that time had rather improved his looks. They were less austere, less contemptuous, than they used to be: perhaps, indeed, it was only a momentary remission of his ...

— Jane Talbot • Charles Brockden Brown

... of London, Ivy berries were given with some success as possessing antiseptic virtues, and to induce perspiration, thus effecting a remission of the symptoms. Cups made from Ivywood have been employed from which to drink for disorders of the spleen, and for whooping cough, their method of use being to be kept refilled from time to time with water (cold or hot), which the patient ...

— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

... reached Notre-Dame des Andilliers; but however numerous were the miracles there performed, the remission of the doom pronounced by the martyr on Pere Lactance was not added to their number; and at a quarter-past six on September 18th, exactly a month to the very minute after Grandier's death, Pere Lactance expired in ...

— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - URBAIN GRANDIER--1634 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... able to do so, had knelt upon the seats, whilst the others joined their hands, or repeatedly made the sign of the cross; and when the murmured prayers were followed by the Litanies of the ritual, every voice rose, an ardent desire for the remission of the man's sins and for his physical and spiritual cure winging its flight heavenward with each successive Kyrie eleison. Might his whole life, of which they knew nought, be forgiven him; might he enter, stranger though ...

— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

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