a payment of money sent to a person in another place
[ Syn: remittance , remission , remitment ]
an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); his cancer is in remission
[ Syn: remission , subsidence ]
the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
[ Syn: absolution , remission , remission of sin ]