remitment

English

Etymology

remit +‎ -ment

Noun

remitment (countable and uncountable, plural remitments)

  1. The act of remitting; remission.
    • 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, London: James Allestry, Book 2, p. 63,
      And Catus Decianus the Procurator endeavour’d to bring all thir goods within the compass of a new confiscation, by disavowing the remittment of Claudius.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 remitment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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