remission

Nouns

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

Synonyms

subsidence remittal remitment remittance remit remission of sin absolution

Words of close approximity

remission of sin