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