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]