remission

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A pardon of a sin; (chiefly historical, also figuratively) the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a (legal) claim or a debt.
2. (countable, uncountable) A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.
3. (countable, uncountable) A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.
4. (countable, uncountable) A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.
5. (countable, uncountable) An act of remitting, returning, or sending back.
6. (countable, uncountable) An act of remitting, returning, or sending back.
7. (countable, uncountable) Reflection or back-scattering of light by a material; (to send back)

Verb

To change the mission of; to provide with a new mission.

Synonyms

pardon

absolution

forgiveness

remittal

remitment

abatement

exemption

remittance

condonation

subsidence

remission of sin

remit

release

deduction

deliverance

diminution

discount

dispensation

excuse

execution

extrication

forgiving

immunity

immunization

impairment

lessening

liquidation

mercy

mitigate

performance

pity

quietus

quit

quotation

quote

rebate

redemption

reduce

reduction

re-establishment

reference

referral

regaining

reinstatement

relief

removal

reprieve

restitution

restoration

riddance

Translations

remissione

rémission

condono

Vergebung

remisión

remissão

af

vergeving

eksiltme

vergiffenis

giro

perdono

feragat

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈmɪʃ(ə)n/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: remissioun

Cognate with French: rémission

Cognate with Catalan: remissió

Cognate with Italian: remissioni

Cognate with Old Provençal: remessió

Cognate with Portuguese: remisson

Cognate with Spanish: remisión

In summary

From Middle English remissioun (“release from duty; freeing of captives; mercy, pardon, respite; forgiveness; release from or reduction of penances; reduction in intensity (of a quality, symptom, etc.); transfer of property, quitclaim; legal opinion or submission; reference, cross-reference”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman remission, remissione, remissioun, remissiun and Middle French, Old French remission (“forgiveness of sin; pardoning of an offence; postponement; cessation, suspension; diminishing or weakening of something; reduction of debt; reduction in intensity of a disease or symptom”) (modern French rémission), and their etymon Late Latin remissiō (“forgiveness; pardon of sins”), Latin remissiō (“release; sending back; easing off, relaxing, softening; reduction of debt; reduction in intensity of a disease or symptom”), from remittō (“to remit, send back; to diminish; to relax; to do without, forego”) + -siō. Remittō is derived from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + mittō (“to cause to go; to send; to discharge, emit, let go, release; to throw; to extend, reach out; to announce, tell; to produce, yield; to attend, escort, guide; to dismiss, disregard; to end”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to change, exchange; to change places, go past”) or *(s)meyt- (“to throw”)).
The English word is cognate with Catalan remissió, Italian remissioni, remissione (“remission; withdrawal of legal action; compliance, submission”), Old Occitan remessió, Portuguese remisson, remissão (“pardon; remission”), Spanish remisión (“remission”).