noun the act of sending back.
2. remission ·noun diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
3. remission ·noun act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.
4. remission ·noun the act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.
5. remission ·noun discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, ·etc.
6. remission ·noun a temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.