Definitions for remission

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remission re·mis·sion

Spelling: [ri-mish-uh n]

IPA: /rɪˈmɪʃ ən/

Remission is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 342 anagrams from letters in remission (eiimnorss).

Definitions for remission

noun

1. the act of remitting.
2. pardon; forgiveness, as of sins or offenses.
3. abatement or diminution, as of diligence, labor, intensity, etc.
4. the relinquishment of a payment, obligation, etc.
5. Medicine/Medical. a temporary or permanent decrease or subsidence of manifestations of a disease. a period during which such a decrease or subsidence occurs:

Origin of remission

1175-1225; Middle English Old French Latin remissiōn- (stem of remissiō). See remiss, -ion

Examples for remission

“This drug appears to shut cluster headaches down and puts patients into remission,” says Halpern.

Every convict who helped to catch a fugitive was entitled to a remission of six days.

The remission of punishment was in the discretion of the Governor-in-chief: the 30 Geo.

But in June 2012, after six years of remission, Brown was diagnosed with cancer again.

I think the research runs in different directions depending on the nature of the remission.

During her campaign for the governorship in 2000, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, now in remission.

Its offer is, always and everywhere, the forgiveness, the remission of sins.

May their prayers obtain the remission of their sins, and may the sun smile on them!

For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

It went into remission, but it would resurface in 2011; and Scott was able to beat it once again.