different between indulgence vs remission

English

Etymology

From Middle French indulgence, or its source, Latin indulgentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?d?ld???ns/
• Hyphenation: in?dul?gence

Noun

indulgence (countable and uncountable, plural indulgences)

1. the act of indulging
   • 1654, Henry Hammond, Of Fundamentals...

     will all they that either through indulgence to others or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance any thing that is less than a sincere, uniform resolution of new obedience
2. tolerance
3. catering to someone's every desire
4. something in which someone indulges
5. An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification.
   • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Goodness of God a Motive to Repentance

     If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.

6. (Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 555:

     To understand how indulgences were intended to work depends on linking together a number of assumptions about sin and the afterlife, each of which individually makes considerable sense.

Related terms

• indulge
• indulgent

Translations

Verb

indulgence (third-person singular simple present indulgences, present participle indulgencing, simple past and past participle indulgenced)

1. (transitive, Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence

French

Noun

indulgence f (plural indulgences)

1. leniency, clemency
2. (Roman Catholicism) indulgence

English

Etymology

From Middle English remissioun (“release from duty; freeing of captives; mercy, pardon, respite; forgiveness; release from or reduction of penances; reduction in intensity (of a quality, symptom, etc.); transfer of property, quitclaim; legal opinion or submission; reference, cross-reference”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman remission, remissione, remissioun, remissiun and Middle French, Old French remission (“forgiveness of sin; pardoning of an offence; postponement; cessation, suspension; diminishing or weakening of something; reduction of debt; reduction in intensity of a disease or symptom”) (modern French rémission), and their etymon Late Latin remissi? (“forgiveness; pardon of sins”), Latin remissi? (“release; sending back; easing off, relaxing, softening; reduction of debt; reduction in intensity of a disease or symptom”), from remitt? (“to remit, send back; to diminish; to relax; to do without, forego”) + -si?. Remitt? is derived from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + mitt? (“to cause to go; to send; to discharge, emit, let go, release; to throw; to extend, reach out; to announce, tell; to produce, yield; to attend, escort, guide; to dismiss, disregard; to end”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth?- (“to change, exchange; to change places, go past”) or *(s)meyt- (“to throw”)).

The English word is cognate with Catalan remissió, Italian remissioni, remissione (“remission; withdrawal of legal action; compliance, submission”), Old Occitan remessió, Portuguese remisson, remissão (“pardon; remission”), Spanish remisión (“remission”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???m??(?)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???m??(?)n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Hyphenation: re?mis?sion

Noun

remission (countable and uncountable, plural remissions)

1. A pardon of a sin; (chiefly historical, also figuratively) the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a (legal) claim or a debt.

   Synonym: acceptilation

   Antonym: irremission
2. A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.
   1. (law) A reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence; in particular, the reduction of a prison sentence as a recognition of the prisoner's good behaviour.

      Synonym: remitment
   2. (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent.

      Synonyms: anesis, remittence
3. An act of remitting, returning, or sending back.
   1. (law) A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal.
4. (spectroscopy) Reflection or scattering of light by a material; reemission.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with reemission.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• (medicine): relapse

References

Further reading

• remission (medicine) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• remission (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• minorises, missioner, oneirisms

Finnish

Noun

remission

1. Genitive singular form of remissio.

Interlingua

Noun

remission (plural remissiones)

1. remission

Old French

Alternative forms

• remissiun (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin remissio.

Noun

remission f (oblique plural remissions, nominative singular remission, nominative plural remissions)

1. remission (pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense)

Descendants

• ? English: remission
• French: rémission

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (remission, supplement)
• remissiun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub