Remission

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The act of sending back.

II. Remission ·noun Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.

III. Remission ·noun Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.

IV. Remission ·noun The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.

V. Remission ·noun Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, ·etc.

VI. Remission ·noun 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.