Definitions from Wiktionary (remission)

▸ noun:  A pardon of a sin; (chiefly historical, also figuratively) the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a (legal) claim or a debt.
▸ noun:  A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.
▸ noun:  (law) A reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence; in particular, the reduction of a prison sentence as a recognition of the prisoner's good behaviour.
▸ noun:  (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent.
▸ noun:  An act of remitting, returning, or sending back.
▸ noun:  (law) A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal.
▸ noun:  (spectroscopy) Reflection or scattering of light by a material; reemission.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To change the mission of; to provide with a new mission.
▸ Also see remission

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