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 ]