Sample Sentences for
remission
(editor-reviewed)

remission as in:  remission of cancer or love

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    I'll give you my strength if I can have your remission.  (source)
    remission = decrease in intensity of a disease
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    The doctor says your disease is incurable, but you could have a remission lasting five years, even more, if you take good care of yourself and don't overdo it.  (source)
    remission = a state with symptoms decreased or gone
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    After five years of treatment, the drug appeared to chase the cancer into remission.  (source)
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    Not since the eyeliner—which he knew wasn't dead, but it seemed in remission.  (source)
    remission = a less severe state
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    The devastation was great during the Bad Times-and these came more often in precisely plotted spasms, shorter remissions, more terrible consequences after each attack-but the Earth abided and repaired itself as best it could.  (source)
    remissions = periods of lower intensity
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    As we hoped and prayed, Miss Riley's disease went into remission.  (source)
    remission = a state with symptoms decreased or gone
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    My interests are extremely selfish, no remissions permitted.†  (source)
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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
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    I see the periodic remissions to normalcy, but then I'm not a doctor.†  (source)
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    Formal Diagnosis: Schizophrenic reaction, paranoid type (borderline) — currently in remission.  (source)
    remission = a state with symptoms decreased or gone
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    Such remissions or cures are not unheard of.†  (source)
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    She's fine. Still in remission.  (source)
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    And who is to say that one of these long remissions doesn't really represent what amounts to a complete cure?†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    Handing out the "remission of sins" in this way was totally unheard of.†  (source)
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    My penance is, to call Lucetta back And ask remission for my folly past.  (source)
    remission = forgiveness
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    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
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    "Lord remember me when thou commest into thy Kingdome:" Therefore, saith hee, there is Remission of sins after this life.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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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    "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)
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    (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)
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