remission

See also: rémission

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French remission (compare French rémission), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin remissio (“release”). Compare remit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈmɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

remission (countable and uncountable, plural remissions)

1. A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.
2. A pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a claim.
   • 1543 June 8, Henry VIII of England, “The Nynthe Article. The Holy Catholike Churche.”, in A Necessary Doctrine and Erudicion for Any Chrysten Man, Set furth by the Kynges Maiestye of Englande, &c., imprinted at London:  […] by Thomas Berthelet, […], →OCLC:

     Moreouer the perfit beleue of this article, worketh in all true chriſten people, aloue to continue in this vnitie, and afeare to be caſte out of the ſame, and it worketh in them that be ſinners and repentant, great comforte, and conſolacion, to obteine remiſſion of ſinne, by vertue of Chriſtes paſſion, and adminiſtracion of his ſacramentes at the miniſters handes, ordained for that purpoſe, [...]

3. An official or otherwise recognized process or attempt of stopping an addiction.
4. (law) A referral of a case back to a lower (inferior) court of law.
5. (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease.

   Her cancer was in remission.

Related terms

• CR (“complete remission”)
• remit
• remittal
• remittance
• remittent
• remitter
• remittor

 

Translations

lessening of amount due

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: osasuoritus, lyhennys, osamaksu (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: remissione (it) f
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

pardon of a sin

• Armenian: թողություն (hy) (tʻoġutʻyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: vergeving (nl) f
• Finnish: anteeksianto (fi), synninpäästö (fi)
• French: rémission (fr) f, pardon (fr) m
• German: Erlass (de) m, Vergebung (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐌻𐌴𐍄 n (aflēt)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄφεσις f (áphesis)

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• Italian: remissione (it) f
• Latin: remissiō f
• Manx: maih
• Portuguese: remissão (pt) f
• Russian: отпуще́ние (ru) (otpuščénije)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swahili: ondoleo class 5

referral of a case back to a lower court

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: siirtäminen (fi)
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• Italian: condono (it) m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

abatement or lessening of a disease

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 緩解期／缓解期 (huǎnjiěqī), 缓解期 (huǎnjiěqī)

• Czech: remise f
• Finnish: lieveneminen (fi), elpymävaihe, remissio
• Hebrew: רמיסיה (he) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: remissione (it) f
• Japanese: 緩解 (ja) (かんかい, kankai)
• Portuguese: remissão (pt) f
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• (medicine): relapse
• reemission

Anagrams

• minorises, missioner, oneirisms

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Finnish

Noun

remission

1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular of remissio

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Interlingua

Noun

remission (plural remissiones)

1. remission

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Old French

Alternative forms

• remissiun (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin remissio.

Noun

remission oblique singular, f (oblique plural remissions, nominative singular remission, nominative plural remissions)

1. remission (pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense)

Descendants

• → English: remission
• French: rémission

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (remission, supplement)
• remissiun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub