Both Uses of
remission
in
October Sky
- Hodgkin's Disease can go into remission.
Chpt 23remission = a state with symptoms decreased or gone
- As we hoped and prayed, Miss Riley's disease went into remission.
Chpt Epil. *
Definitions:
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(1)
(remission as in: remission of cancer or love) a decrease in intensity -- most typically of a disease (or, in UK of a prison sentence)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, remission can refer to:- a payment that is sent or the act of sending it (remitting it)
- the act of referring (sending/remitting) a case to another court
- the act of forgiving someone -- especially for violating religious rules