Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of remitting, or the state of being remitted; remission; remittance; forgiveness; pardon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of remitting, or the state of being remitted; remission.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
remitting ;remission .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
- noun a payment of money sent to a person in another place
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Examples
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President, signed by several thousand persons in Vermont, praying a remitment of Lyon's fine.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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I shall give orders, by the first opportunity, to our bankers in Amsterdam, to answer your drafts for the allowances herein before mentioned, recruiting them at the same time by an adequate remitment; as I expect that by the time you receive this, they will not have remaining on hand of this fund more than seven or eight thousand dollars.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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I shall give orders by the first opportunity to our bankers in Amsterdam, to answer your drafts for the allowances herein before mentioned, recruiting them at the same time by an adequate remitment, as
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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