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1. A payment of money sent to a person in another place
   - remittance, remission, remitment
    
2. An abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
   "his cancer is in remittal"
   - remission, subsidence
    
3. The act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
   - absolution, remission, remission of sin

Derived forms: remittals

See also: remit

Type of: abatement, hiatus, payment, redemption, reprieve, respite, salvation, suspension

Part of: penance