Synonyms of the word

remission

• n. A lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.
• n. A pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense.
• n. (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease.
• n. (law) Referral of a case back to a lower (inferior) court of law.

abatement

• n. The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation;…
• n. The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount…
• n. (heraldry) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon; any figure added to the coat of arms tending to lower…
• n. (law) The action of a person that abates, or without proper authority enters a residence after the death…
• n. (law) The reduction of the proceeds of a will, when the debts have not yet been satisfied; the reduction…

absolution

• n. (ecclesiastical) An absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.
• n. Forgiveness of sins, in a general sense.
• n. The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
• n. An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
• n. (civil law, obsolete) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring an accused person innocent.
• n. (obsolete) Delivery, in speech.

hiatus

• n. A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
• n. An interruption, break or pause.
• n. An unexpected break from work.
• n. (geology) A gap in geological strata.
• n. (anatomy) An opening in an organ.
• n. (linguistics).

payment

• n. (uncountable) The act of paying.
• n. (countable) A sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services.

redemption

• n. The act of redeeming or something redeemed.
• n. The recovery, for a fee, of a pawned article.
• n. Salvation from sin.
• n. Rescue upon payment of a ransom.

referral

• n. The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.
• n. (slang) A document used by schools detailing some form of a student's misbehavior and listing the actions…

remit

• v. To forgive, pardon.
• v. To refrain from exacting or enforcing.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To give up; omit; cease doing.
• v. To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of) a specified quality.
• v. (obsolete) To diminish, abate.
• v. To refer (something) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
• v. (obsolete) To send back.
• v. (archaic) To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.
• v. To restore or replace.
• v. To postpone.
• v. To transmit or send, as money in payment.
• n. (chiefly Britain) terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.

remitment

• n. The act of remitting; remission.

remittal

• n. Anything remitted; remittance.

remittance

• n. The act of transmitting money, bills, etc. to a distant place, in return or payment for goods purchased.
• n. A payment to a remote recipient.

reprieve

• v. (transitive) To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.
• v. (transitive) To bring relief to someone.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To take back to prison (in lieu of execution).
• n. The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
• n. A document authorizing such an action.
• n. Relief from pain etc., especially temporary.

respite

• n. A brief interval of rest or relief.
• n. (law) A reprieve, especially from a sentence of death.
• n. (law) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
• v. (transitive) To delay or postpone.

salvation

• n. (religion) The process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell).
• n. The process of being restored or made new for the purpose of becoming saved; the process of being rid…

subsidence

• n. The process of becoming less active or severe.
• n. (geology) A sinking of something to a lower level, especially of part of the surface of the Earth due…

suspension

• n. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
• n. A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
• n. The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a…
• n. The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
• n. (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly…
• n. (music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which…
• n. (Scots law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted…
• n. (topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an…
• n. (topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function's domain…
• n. (vehicles) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile or car,…