Both Uses of
remit
in
A Rose for Emily
- Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor—he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron-remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity.†
- Meanwhile her taxes had been remitted.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(remit as in: remit payment) to send money -- especially sent overseas or sent as a donation
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(2)
(remit as in: pain remitted) to lessen in force or intensity -- often used for pain, symptoms, or punishment
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(3)
(remit as in: remit sins) to forgive
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(4)
(remit as in: remit has expanded) area of responsibility
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(5)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In law, remit can mean to refer (send) a case to another court.
A comprehensive dictionary will have more specialized definitions of remit.