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▸ 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.
Similar:
absolution,
remittance,
remittal,
subsidence,
remission of sin,
remitment,
irremission,
remise,
acquittance,
respite,
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complete remission,
partial remission,
minimal remission,
clinical remission,
molecular remission,
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