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–noun 

1. the act of remitting.

2. pardon; forgiveness, as of sins or offenses. 



3. abatement or diminution, as of diligence, labor, intensity, etc.

4. the relinquishment of a payment, obligation, etc. 



5. Medicine/Medical. 

a. a temporary or permanent decrease or subsidence of manifestations of a disease.

b. a period during which such a decrease or subsidence occurs: The patient's leukemia was in remission.  

 



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remittance, remission (nn.)   

 

Remittance is "the sending of money" and "money so sent," as in His remittance reached us on Thursday. 



A remittance man is someone living abroad, being supported by remittances of money sent from home; the term was much used in nineteenth-century Britain. 



Remission is "a postponement," "the cancellation of a debt," "the lessening of pain or discomfort," and in the idiom in remission, "a period of time during which the symptoms of a disease abate or disappear," used particularly of the symptoms of certain cancers, which, as they lessen or even vanish for a time, are said to be in remission. 





 　 

Don't think they smoke too much in this movie. In the 1950s everybody smoked everywhere all the time. Life was a disease, and smoking held it temporarily in remission. And drinking? 



Every ad executive in the neighborhood would head for the Wrigley Bar at lunchtime to prove the maxim: One martini is just right, two are too many, three are not enough.





vindicate

exonerate 

execrate 

extenuate

to represent a fault as less serious

to extenuate a [crime]. 

Do not extenuate the [difficulties] we are in. 

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