Hypertext Webster Gateway: "remittal"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Remittal \Re*mit"tal\ (-tal), n.
A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the
first fruits. --Swift.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
remittal
n 1: a payment of money sent to a person in another place [syn: {remittance},
{remission}, {remitment}]
2: an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the
manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission"
[syn: {remission}, {subsidence}]
3: the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as
pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance [syn: {absolution},
{remission}, {remission of sin}]
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