Meaning

(transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
2. (transitive) To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
3. (transitive) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To give up; omit; cease doing.
5. (transitive) To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To diminish, abate.
8. (transitive) To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).

Example Sentences

The Supreme Court today allowed major sponsors, including LG Electronics India (LGEI), to remit foreign exchange for the tournament.

Such a Step as this would raise a Succession of able Seamen, and in a few Years would come to remit a thousand, or perhaps two or three thousand sturdy Youths every Year into the general Class of English Seamen;

Doctor Strong refers to me in public as a promising young scholar. Mr. Dick is wild with joy, and my aunt remits me a guinea by the next post.

Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits.

Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

Mrs. Western was a very good-natured Woman, and ordinarily of a forgiving Temper. She had lately remitted the Trespass of a Stage-coach Man, who had overturned her Post-chaise into a Ditch;

So he said that there was no sin to remit in baptism: ‘sin is not born with a man, it is subsequently committed by the man; for it is shown to be a fault, not of nature, but of the human will’.

to remit the performance of an obligation

Word Forms

• remits
• remitting
• remitted
• remytte

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