remit
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From Latin remittere (“to send, send back”).
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remit (third-person singular simple present remits, present participle remitting, simple past and past participle remitted)
- To forgive, pardon.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 307:
- So he said that there was no sin to remit in baptism: ‘sin is not born with a man, it is subsequently committed by the man; for it is shown to be a fault, not of nature, but of the human will’.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 307:
- To give up, stop succumbing to (a negative emotion etc.).
- To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
- (obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of) a specified quality.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p. 132-3:
- Great Alexander in the midst of all his prosperity [...], when he saw one of his wounds bleed, remembered that he was but a man, and remitted of his pride.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p. 132-3:
- (obsolete) To diminish, abate.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Book I, New York 2001, p. 139:
- Dotage, fatuity, or folly [...] is for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others [...].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Book I, New York 2001, p. 139:
- To refer (something) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
- To postpone.
- To transmit or send, as money in payment.
- 2003: The Hindu, World Cup sponsors can remit money in forex: SC read at [1] on 14 May 2006
- The Supreme Court today allowed major sponsors, including LG Electronics India (LGEI), to remit foreign exchange for the tournament.
- 2003: The Hindu, World Cup sponsors can remit money in forex: SC read at [1] on 14 May 2006
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- unremitting (via remitting)
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to transmit or send, as money in payment
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remit (plural remits)
- (chiefly UK) terms of reference; set of responsibilities.
- 2000: Scientific Working Group on Good Laboratory Practice issues, Handbook: Good Laboratory Practice read on World Health Organisation website at [2] on 14 May 2006:
- WHO/TDR should prepare a volume containing ... important issues in the performance of studies that fall outside of the GLP remit.
- 2001: H. Meinardi et al, ILAE Commission, The treatment gap in epilepsy: the current situation and ways forward read at [[3]] on 14 May 2006:
- However, this is beyond the remit of this particular article.
- 2003: Andy Macleod, Cisco Systems, Pulling it all together - the 21st Century Campus read at [[4]] on 14 May 2006:
- Next steps ... Create one IS organisation and extend remit to all HE activities.
- 2000: Scientific Working Group on Good Laboratory Practice issues, Handbook: Good Laboratory Practice read on World Health Organisation website at [2] on 14 May 2006:
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terms of reference; set of responsibilities
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remit
- third-person singular past historic of remettre
