Remission /(r?-m?sh"?n)/

Re·mis·sion

Remission

n.
  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.
  3. Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
  4. 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. (Med.)
  5. The act of sending back. [R.]
  6. Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.