[ UK /ɹɪmˈɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈmɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
    his cancer is in remission
  2. a payment of money sent to a person in another place
  3. the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
  4. (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
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How To Use remission In A Sentence

  • Prisoner 651304 Hughes had been awarded three months loss of remission, plus the removal of televisual privileges for six weeks. THE SCAR
  • The creeping fractures in both have been palliated by results in recent games, but the coming ones will determine whether those signs of life are indicative of temporary remission or permanent recovery.
  • Vnde missarum sacrificia, quibus uulgo dicebatur, Sacerdotem offerre Christum in remissionem poena aut culpae pro uiuis et defunctis, blasphema figmenta sunt, et pernitiosae imposturae. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
  • Barring miracle remission on a continental scale, only aggressive, coordinated medical relief, public health programs and public information campaigns squelch epidemics.
  • The offenders' liberty, in the absence of sentence remission, would actually be restricted for a longer period than if incarcerated.
  • Combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy resulted in complete resolution of the lesion and a long-term remission of more than 5 years.
  • We remember that John the Baptist preached a baptism of repentance for the remission of sin.
  • Infants, because they lacked a will developed enough to choose evil, need not be baptized for the remission of sins they had never committed.
  • The authors conclude that methotrexate is safe and effective for maintaining remission in patients with Crohn's disease.
  • The ultimate expression of this deep-seated corruption is the practice of selling, for that most worldly of objects, money, something that concerns man's deepest and inmost nature - the spiritual peace brought by the remission of sins.
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