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remission
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  • Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return.   (source)
    remission = a less intense state
  • Joseph's wife ran off with a cabana boy when they were in Greece, and while Dinah's breast cancer seems to have gone into remission--   (source)
    remission = a state with symptoms decreased or gone
  • The longer you go without treatment, Kopelowicz says, the harder it can be to go into remission and the less remission there will be.†   (source)
  • Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.†   (source)
  • My Negli's seemed to be in remission.†   (source)
  • Cancer patients showed striking remission of symptoms consistent with cure.†   (source)
  • I see the periodic remissions to normalcy, but then I'm not a doctor.†   (source)
  • If we bathe in the lake each day, the disease remains in remission.†   (source)
  • She was in what they call a state of MS remission for a while, but now she's getting worse fast.†   (source)
  • Lord Redwyne asked only for thirty years' remission of the taxes that Littlefinger and his wine factors had levied on certain of the Arbor's finest vintages.†   (source)
  • Such remissions or cures are not unheard of.†   (source)
  • This award will entitle you to remission of tuition fees for this period.†   (source)
  • Hodgkin's Disease can go into remission.   (source)
  • I'll give you my strength if I can have your remission.   (source)
    remission = decrease in intensity of a disease
  • She was a regular—in a long remission from appendiceal cancer, which I had not previously known existed.   (source)
    remission = decrease in intensity
  • Lida in remission.   (source)
    remission = a less severe state of a cancer
  • My interests are extremely selfish, no remissions permitted.†   (source)
  • "So for all these last years it's been in and out of Payne Whitney or Riggs or Menninger or wherever, with these long periods of relative tranquillity when he acts as normally as you or I. When we got him this little job at the Pfizer library we thought it might be a time when he had undergone a permanent remission.†   (source)
  • And who is to say that one of these long remissions doesn't really represent what amounts to a complete cure?†   (source)
  • There wasn't any remission this morning, was there, Rieux?†   (source)
  • You know as well as I that there's often a remission in the morning.†   (source)
  • From four in the morning Dr. Castel and Tarrou had been keeping watch and noting, stage by stage, the progress and remissions of the malady.†   (source)
  • The authorities had optimistically reckoned on the coming of winter to halt its progress, but it lasted through the first cold spells without the least remission.†   (source)
  • A round robin was prepared and sent in to the principal, asking for a remission of Sue's punishment.†   (source)
  • He was in the toils, there was no help for him; he must either take this punishment or beg for its remission.†   (source)
  • But when these storms of anguish grew calm I could no longer realise their existence; besides, tomorrow evening was still a long way off; I reminded myself that I should still have time to think about things, albeit that remission of time could bring me no access of power, albeit the coming event was in no way dependent upon the exercise of my will, and seemed not quite inevitable only because it was still separated from me by this short interval.†   (source)
  • And thus upon a night, there came a vision to Sir Launcelot, and charged him, in remission of his sins, to haste him unto Almesbury: And by then thou come there, thou shalt find Queen Guenever dead.†   (source)
  • — I find an apt remission in myself; And yet here's one in place I cannot pardon.†   (source)
  • It is not to be doubted, that a single man of prudence and good sense is better fitted, in delicate conjunctures, to balance the motives which may plead for and against the remission of the punishment, than any numerous body whatever.†   (source)
  • And therefore it holdeth still good, that the beleef of this one Article is sufficient faith to obtaine remission of sinnes to the Penitent, and consequently to bring them into the Kingdome of Heaven.†   (source)
  • …one end of it a gallows, and a sort of tribunal, where four judges commonly sat to administer the law which the lord of river, bridge and the lordship had enacted, and which was to this effect, 'If anyone crosses by this bridge from one side to the other he shall declare on oath where he is going to and with what object; and if he swears truly, he shall be allowed to pass, but if falsely, he shall be put to death for it by hanging on the gallows erected there, without any remission.'†   (source)
  • This remission was presently granted; for indeed she seldom had occasion to ask him twice, as he loved her with such ardent affection, that, by gratifying her, he commonly conveyed the highest gratification to himself.†   (source)
  • Sweet Princes, what I did, I did in honour, Led by the impartial conduct of my soul; And never shall you see that I will beg A ragged and forestall'd remission.†   (source)
  • And thus upon a night, there came a vision to Sir Launcelot, and charged him, in remission of his sins, to haste him unto Almesbury: And by then thou come there, thou shalt find Queen Guenever dead.†   (source)
  • For Seneca saith, 'There is the remission and forgiveness, where the confession is; for confession is neighbour to innocence.'†   (source)
  • Then gan she him full busily to preach Of Christe's coming, and his paines teach, And many pointes of his passion; How Godde's Son in this world was withhold* *employed To do mankinde plein* remission, *full That was y-bound in sin and cares cold.†   (source)
  • …these passions ordinarily succeed each other, and scarce twenty-four hours ever passed in which the pedagogue was not, in some degree, the object of both; yet, on extraordinary occasions, when the passion of anger had raged very high, the remission was usually longer: and so was the case at present; for she continued longer in a state of affability, after this fit of jealousy was ended, than her husband had ever known before: and, had it not been for some little exercises, which all…†   (source)
  • And To Forgive, And Retain Sinnes The Power of Remission, And Retention Of Sinnes, called also the Power of Loosing, and Binding, and sometimes the Keyes Of The Kingdome Of Heaven, is a consequence of the Authority to Baptize, or refuse to Baptize.†   (source)
  • And therefore in the Holy Scripture, Remission of Sinne, and Salvation from Death and Misery, is the same thing, as it appears by the words of our Saviour, who having cured a man sick of the Palsey, by saying, (Mat.†   (source)
  • But because wee are all guilty of disobedience to Gods Law, not onely originally in Adam, but also actually by our own transgressions, there is required at our hands now, not onely Obedience for the rest of our time, but also a Remission of sins for the time past; which Remission is the reward of our Faith in Christ.†   (source)
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  • Handing out the "remission of sins" in this way was totally unheard of.†   (source)
  • My penance is, to call Lucetta back
    And ask remission for my folly past.   (source)
    remission = forgiveness
  • One day in perusing the Scriptures, I came to these words, "He is exalted a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance and to give remission":   (source)
    remission = forgiveness or payment for sin
  • "Lord remember me when thou commest into thy Kingdome:" Therefore, saith hee, there is Remission of sins after this life.†   (source)
  • (John 3.36, 3.18) Nor can it be conceived, that the benefit of Faith, "is Remission of sins" unlesse we conceive withall, that the dammage of Infidelity, is "the Retention of the same sins."†   (source)
  • The end of Baptisme is Remission of Sins: and therefore St. Peter, when they that were converted by his Sermon on the day of Pentecost, asked what they were to doe, advised them to "repent, and be Baptized in the name of Jesus, for the Remission of Sins."†   (source)
  • For Baptisme is the Sacrament of Allegeance, of them that are to be received into the Kingdome of God; that is to say, into Eternall life; that is to say, to Remission of Sin: For as Eternall life was lost by the Committing , so it is recovered by the Remitting of mens Sins.†   (source)
  • "Men and Brethren what shall we doe?" to whom St. Peter answered (in the next verse) "Repent, and be Baptized every one of you, for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."†   (source)
  • But because wee are all guilty of disobedience to Gods Law, not onely originally in Adam, but also actually by our own transgressions, there is required at our hands now, not onely Obedience for the rest of our time, but also a Remission of sins for the time past; which Remission is the reward of our Faith in Christ.†   (source)
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