Remiss(a.) Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow.
Remiss(n.) The act of being remiss; inefficiency; failure.
Remissful(a.) Inclined to remit punishment; lenient; clement.
Remissibility(n.) The state or quality of being remissible.
Remissible(a.) Capable of being remitted or forgiven.
Remission(n.) The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.
Remission(n.) Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.
Remission(n.) Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
Remission(n.) A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.
Remission(n.) The act of sending back.
Remission(n.) Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.
Remissive(a.) Remitting; forgiving; abating.
Remissness(n.) Quality or state of being remiss.
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