Word Meanings - REMISSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. 5. The act of sending back. Stackhouse. 6. Act

Additional info about word: REMISSION

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. 5. The act of sending back. Stackhouse. 6. Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance. (more info) 1. The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up. 2. Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc. This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Matt. xxvi. 28. That ples, therefore, . . . Will gain thee no remission. Milton. 3. Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REMISSION)

• Quittance
• Discharge
• absolution
• remission
• release

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REMISSION)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to REMISSION)

• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• FETTERLESS
  Free from fetters. Marston.
• CONFINELESS
  Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
• CONSTRAINED
  Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
• CONFINE
  To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of
• CONFINEMENT
  1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
• CONSTRAINT
  The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Not by constraint, but bDryden. Syn. -- Compulsion;
• RELEASEMENT
  The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation. Milton.
• CONSTRAINABLE
  Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint. Hooker.
• DISCHARGER
  One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
• DISCHARGE
  1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge
• RELEASEE
  One to whom a release is given.
• RELEASER
  One who releases, or sets free.
• CONSTRAINER
  One who constrains.
• FETTERED
  Seeming as if fettered, as the feet pf certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.
• CONSTRAINEDLY
  By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner. Hooker.
• SHACKLE
  Stubble. Pegge.
• REMISSION
  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. 5. The act of sending back. Stackhouse. 6. Act
• ENFETTER
  To bind in fetters; to enchain. "Enfettered to her love." Shak.
• UNFETTER
  To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind.
• RAMSHACKLE
  Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair. There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. Thackeray.
• IRREMISSION
  Refusal of pardon.
• UNSHACKLE
  To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter. Addison.
• UNCONSTRAINT
  Freedom from constraint; ease. Felton.