Absolution vs Remission - What's the difference?
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(ecclesiastical) An absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.
Forgiveness of sins, in a general sense.
The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
(obsolete) Delivery, in speech.
A lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.
A pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense.
(medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease.
(legal) Referral of a case back to a lower (inferior ) court of law.
As nouns the difference between absolution and remission
is that absolution is an absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority while remission is a lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.absolution
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Shipley)
- Government ... granting absolution to the nation.
- (Ben Jonson)
Derived terms
* Absolution daySee also
* indulgenceReferences
Anagrams
* ----remission
English
Noun
(en noun)- Her cancer was in remission .