re·mit·tal (r -mt l)n. Remission. |
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| Noun | 1. | remittal - a payment of money sent to a person in another place payment - a sum of money paid or a claim discharged |
| 2. | remittal - an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission" abatement, hiatus, reprieve, respite, suspension - an interruption in the intensity or amount of something resolution - the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung) | |
| 3. |  remittal - the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penanceredemption, salvation - (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil indulgence - the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution; "in the Middle Ages the unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners became a widespread abuse" penance - a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution |
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