remission
UK /ɹɪˈmɪʃ(ə)n/ · US /ɹəˈmɪʃ(ə)n/ noun, verb
Forms remissions remissioning remissioned
- noun A pardon of a sin; (chiefly historical, also figuratively) the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a (legal) claim or a debt.
- noun A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.
- noun (law) A reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence; in particular, the reduction of a prison sentence as a recognition of the prisoner's good behaviour.
- noun (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent. “Her cancer was in remission.”
- noun An act of remitting, returning, or sending back.
- noun (law) A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal.
- noun (spectroscopy) Reflection or back-scattering of light by a material; (to send back)
- verb (transitive) To change the mission of; to provide with a new mission.
Synonyms
acceptilation remitment anesis remittence remittal subsidence remittance remit absolution remission of sin
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English remissioun (“release from duty; freeing of captives; mercy, pardon, respite; forgiveness; release from or reduction of penances; reduction in intensity (of a quality, symptom, etc.); transfer of property, quitclaim; legal opinion or submission; reference, cross-reference”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman remission, remissione, remissioun, remissiun and Middle French, Old French remission (“forgiveness of sin; pardoning of an offence; postponement; cessation, suspension; diminishing or weakening of something; reduction of debt; reduction in intensity of a disease or symptom”) (modern French rémission), and their etymon Late Latin remissiō (“forgiveness; pardon of sins”), Latin remissiō (“release; sending back; easing off, relaxing, softening; reduction of debt; reduction in intensity of a disease or symptom”), from remittō (“to remit, send back; to diminish; to relax; to do without, forego”) + -siō. Remittō is derived from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + mittō (“to cause to go; to send; to discharge, emit, let go, release; to throw; to extend, reach out; to announce, tell; to produce, yield; to attend, escort, guide; to dismiss, disregard; to end”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to change, exchange; to change places, go past”) or *(s)meyt- (“to throw”)).
The English word is cognate with Catalan remissió, Italian remissioni, remissione (“remission; withdrawal of legal action; compliance, submission”), Old Occitan remessió, Portuguese remisson, remissão (“pardon; remission”), Spanish remisión (“remission”).
From re- + mission.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.
- noun Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc. This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Matt. xxvi. 28.
Etymology [F. rémission, L. remissio. See Remit.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “remission”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details