remission

Meanings

Noun

• an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
  • "his cancer is in remission"
• a payment of money sent to a person in another place
• (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
• the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance

Synonyms

absolution, remission of sin, remit, remitment, remittal, remittance, subsidence