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Absolve :: Absolve (v. t.) To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment..

Acceptilation :: Acceptilation (n.) Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.

Relaxation :: Relaxation (n.) Remission from attention and effort; indulgence in recreation, diversion, or amusement..

Remittitur :: Remittitur (n.) A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages..

Indulgence :: Indulgence (n.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory..

Rhythm :: Rhythm (n.) A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables..

Remission :: Remission (n.) The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up..

Remissory :: Remissory (a.) Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive..

Remitment :: Remitment (n.) The act of remitting, or the state of being remitted; remission..

Remission :: Remission (n.) 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..

Paroxysm :: Paroxysm (n.) The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions..

Recess :: Recess (n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school..

Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution..

Off :: Off (adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off..

Recrudescency :: Recrudescency (n.) Increased severity of a disease after temporary remission.

Period :: Period (n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission..

Remission :: Remission (n.) Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.

Remittent :: Remittent (a.) Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions.

Remission :: Remission (n.) Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance..

Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) An official warrant of remission of penalty.

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