remissive

English

Etymology

From Latin remissivus. See remit.

Adjective

remissive (comparative more remissive, superlative most remissive)

1. Remitting; forgiving; abating.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “remissive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Italian

Adjective

remissive

1. feminine plural of remissivo

Anagrams

• verissime