different between remission vs absolve

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

English

Etymology

First attested in the early 15th Century. From Middle English absolven, from Latin absolvere, present active infinitive of absolv? (“set free, acquit”), from ab (“away from”) + solv? (“loosen, free, release”). Doublet of assoil.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?z?lv/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æb?z?lv/, /æb?s?lv/, /?b?z?lv/, /?b?s?lv/

Verb

absolve (third-person singular simple present absolves, present participle absolving, simple past and past participle absolved)

1. (transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.). [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
2. (transitive, obsolete) To resolve; to explain; to solve. [Attested from the late 15^th century until the mid 17^th century.]
   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 331-332,^[1]

     […] he that can monsters tame, laboures atchive, riddles absolve […]
3. (transitive) To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]
4. (transitive, law) To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]
5. (transitive, theology) To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]
6. (transitive, theology) To remit a sin; to give absolution for a sin. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]
7. (transitive, obsolete) To finish; to accomplish. [Attested from the late 16^th century until the early 19^th century.]
8. (transitive) To pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.

Usage notes

• (to set free, release from obligations): Normally followed by the word from.
• (to pronounce free from; give absolution for blame): Normally followed by the word from.

Synonyms

• (set free): excuse, exempt, free, release
• (pronounce free or give absolution): acquit, exculpate, exonerate, pardon, remit, vindicate
• (theology: to pronounce free or give absolution from sin): remit

Derived terms

• absolver

Related terms

Translations

References

Latin

Verb

absolve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of absolv?

Portuguese

Verb

absolve

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of absolver
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of absolver