remission

n

1. forwarding, transmission, transmittal, transmitting, sending, dispatch, dispatching, remitting; payment, paying, discharge, discharging; remunerating, reimbursement, reimbursing, compensation, settlement, settling, paying off or up, liquidation.

2. pardon, pardoning, amnesty, excuse, excusal, reprieve, reprieving, vindication, vindicating; exoneration, exonerating, freedom, freeing, release, releasing, liberation, emancipation, deliverance, forgiveness, forgiving, absolution, absolving, shriving; condonation, condoning, overlooking, disregarding, disregard, oblivion, forgetting, ignoring.

3. abatement, subsidence, subsiding, recession, receding, ebb, ebbing, lulling, decrease, decreasing, decline, declination, declining, sinking; diminution, diminishing, reduction, reducing, lessening, lightening, attenuation, waning; contraction, contracting, shrinkage, shrinking, dwindling, falling off; relaxation, relaxing, slackening, loosening, easing; mitigation, mitigating, assuagement, assuaging, allaying, alleviation, alleviating, palliation, relieving; quelling, quieting, calming, stilling; mollification, mollifying, moderation, moderating, modification, temperance, tempering, subduing, chastening, softening, weakening; yielding, submission, submitting, giving in, surrender, surrendering, giving up.

4. pause, lull, lapse, interregnum, Inf. letup; respite, reprieve, breath, breathing spell, breather, relief, rest, repose, relaxation, recess, inactivity, Archaic. bever; interruption, hiatus, break, intermission, Both Prosody. mora, caesura; suspension, abeyance, prorogation, deferment, deferral, delay, postponement, protraction, extension, continuation, Law. continuance; stemming, checking, cessation, ceasing, desistance, desisting, arrest, stoppage, stopping, halt, standstill, discontinuance, discontinuation, termination.