Word Meanings - IRREMISSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not remitting; unforgiving.

REMITTEE
One to whom a remittance is sent.
REMITTAL
A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. Swift.
REMITTITUR
A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages. A sending back, as when a record is remitted by a superior to an inferior court. Wharton.
REMITTENT
Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions. Remittent fever , a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever, under Malarial.
REMITTANCE
1. The act of transmitting money, bills, or the like, esp. to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation. 2. The sum or thing remitted. Addison.
REMITTOR
One who makes a remittance; a remitter.
REMITTER
The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into
UNREMITTING
Not remitting; incessant; continued; persevering; as, unremitting exertions. Cowper. -- Un`re*mit"ting*ly, adv. -- Un`re*mit"ting*ness, n.
IRREMITTABLE
Not capable of being remitted; irremissible. Holinshed.