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Noun: remittal  ri'mi-tul
  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

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

Part of: penance