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Remission vs Deliverance - What's the difference?

remission | deliverance | Related terms |

Remission is a related term of deliverance.


As nouns the difference between remission and deliverance

is that remission is remission while deliverance is act of delivering, the state of being delivered, or something delivered.

remission

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
    • Her cancer was in remission .
  • (legal) Referral of a case back to a lower (inferior ) court of law.

    • Related terms

    * remit * remittance * remittal * remittent * remitter * remittor * CR: complete remission

    See also

    * (medicine) relapse * reemission

    Anagrams

    * ----

    deliverance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * delivraunce (obsolete) * deliveraunce (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Act of delivering, the state of being delivered, or something delivered.
  • Extrication from danger, imprisonment, rescue etc.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Philip E. Mirowski , title=Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits , volume=100, issue=1, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}

    Synonyms

    * delivery