REMISSION

Definition of REMISSION

  1. (noun)an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
  2. (noun)a payment of money sent to a person in another place
  3. (noun)(law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
  4. (noun)the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance