Definitions for remissions

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remissions re·mis·sion

Spelling: [ri-mish-uh n]

IPA: /rɪˈmɪʃ ən/

Remissions is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 356 anagrams from letters in remissions (eiimnorsss).

Definitions for remissions

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 remissions

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

Examples for remissions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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