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What does remission mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word remission? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.
  2. A pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense.
  3. (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease.
  4. (law) Referral of a case back to a lower (inferior) court of law.
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After two major operations, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, the disease went into remission.
Their penalties included forfeiture of the potential remission of sentence otherwise available to them.
The patient had not yet achieved complete remission at the time of this report.
The party has also stressed the need for preparing a strong case for the remission of interest on agricultural loans.
Attacks tend to occur in clusters, and symptoms may recur after an apparent period of remission.
He has apparently been offered remission of his present sentence and immunity from further prosecution if he testifies.

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