Remission

1. The act of sending back.
2. Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.
3. Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
4. Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.
5. 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.
6. The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.