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remission



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–noun 
1. the act of remitting.
2. pardon; forgiveness, as of sins or offenses. 

3. abatement or diminution, as of diligence, labor, intensity, etc.
4. the relinquishment of a payment, obligation, etc. 

5. Medicine/Medical. 
a. a temporary or permanent decrease or subsidence of manifestations of a disease.
b. a period during which such a decrease or subsidence occurs: The patient's leukemia was in remission.  
 

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remittance, remission (nn.)   
 
Remittance is "the sending of money" and "money so sent," as in His remittance reached us on Thursday. 

A remittance man is someone living abroad, being supported by remittances of money sent from home; the term was much used in nineteenth-century Britain. 

Remission is "a postponement," "the cancellation of a debt," "the lessening of pain or discomfort," and in the idiom in remission, "a period of time during which the symptoms of a disease abate or disappear," used particularly of the symptoms of certain cancers, which, as they lessen or even vanish for a time, are said to be in remission. 


 　 
Don't think they smoke too much in this movie. In the 1950s everybody smoked everywhere all the time. Life was a disease, and smoking held it temporarily in remission. And drinking? 

Every ad executive in the neighborhood would head for the Wrigley Bar at lunchtime to prove the maxim: One martini is just right, two are too many, three are not enough.


vindicate
exonerate 
execrate 
extenuate
to represent a fault as less serious
to extenuate a [crime]. 
Do not extenuate the [difficulties] we are in. 
Debilitate