remission

From Old French remission (compare French rémission), from Latin remissio (“release”). Compare remit.

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

remission (countable and uncountable, 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, or relinquishment of a claim.
3. (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease.

   Her cancer was in remission.

4. An official or otherwise recognized process or attempt of stopping an addiction.
5. (law) Referral of a case back to a lower (inferior) court of law.

• remit
• remittance
• remittal
• remittent
• remitter
• remittor
• CR: complete remission

• (medicine): relapse
• reemission

• minorises, missioner, oneirisms

remission

1. Genitive singular form of remissio.

remission (plural remissiones)

1. remission

• remissiun (Anglo-Norman)

Borrowed from Latin remissio.

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

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

• English: remission (borrowed)
• French: rémission

• 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