Remission : (noun)
1: an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the
manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in
remission" [syn: remittal, subsidence]
2: a payment of money sent to a person in another place [syn: remittance,
remittal, remitment]
3: (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law
case to another court) [syn: remitment, remit]
4: the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as
pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance [syn: absolution,
remittal, remission of sin]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Remission : \Re*mis"sion\ (r?-m?sh"?n), n. [F. r['e]mission, L.
remissio. See Remit.]
1. The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving
up.
2. 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.
That ples, therefore, . . . Will gain thee no
remission. --Milton.
3. Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
4. (Med.) A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force
or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from
intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the
patient for a time; abatement.
5. The act of sending back. [R.] --Stackhouse.
6. Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Pardon \Pardon\,Remission : \remission\
Usage: Forgiveness, Pardon. Forgiveness is Anglo-Saxon,
and pardon Norman French, both implying a giving back.
The word pardon, being early used in our Bible, has,
in religious matters, the same sense as forgiveness;
but in the language of common life there is a
difference between them, such as we often find between
corresponding Anglo-Saxon and Norman words. Forgive
points to inward feeling, and suppose alienated
affection; when we ask forgiveness, we primarily seek
the removal of anger. Pardon looks more to outward
things or consequences, and is often applied to
trifling matters, as when we beg pardon for
interrupting a man, or for jostling him in a crowd.
The civil magistrate also grants a pardon, and not
forgiveness. The two words are, therefore, very
clearly distinguished from each other in most cases
which relate to the common concerns of life. Forgiver
\For*giv"er\, n.
One who forgives. --Johnson.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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REMISSION, civil law. A release.
2. TheRemission : of the debt is either conventional, when it is
expressly granted to the debtor by a creditor having a capacity to alienate;
or tacit, when the creditor voluntarily surrenders to his debtor the
original title under private signature constituting the obligation. Civ.
Code of Lo. art. 2195.
3. By remission is also understood a forgiveness or pardon of an
offence. It has the effect of putting back the offender into the same
situation he was before the commission of the offence. Remission is
generally granted in cases where the offence was involuntary, or committed
in self defence. Poth. Pr. Civ. sec t. 7, art. 2, Sec. 2.
4. Remission is also used by common lawyers to express the act by which
a forfeiture or penalty is forgiven. 10 Wheat. 246.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Remission : Remission: Disappearance of the signs and symptoms of cancer or other disease. When this happens, the disease is said to be "in remission." A remission can be temporary or
permanent.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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