remission

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Singular
remission

Plural
remissions

remission (plural remissions)

  1. A lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.
  2. A pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense.
  3. (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease.
    Her cancer was in remission.
  4. (law) Referring a case back to a lower (inferior) court of law.

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religion
medicine
legal

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[edit] Finnish

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remission

  1. Genitive singular form of remissio.
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