remit
To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
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.
To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
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;
To refrain from exacting or enforcing.
The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties without limit.
He also took that old lawyer out of prison and remitted his fine.
(obsolete) To give up; omit; cease doing.
I was obliged at last almost entirely to remit my visits to the Grove, at the expense of deeply offending Mrs. Hargrave and seriously afflicting poor Esther, who really values my society for want of better [...]
To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
Their confidence revived, they might in a short time remit in some degree their watchfulness over my movements, and I should then be the better enabled to avail myself of any opportunity which presented itself for escape.
(obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).
Great Alexander in the midst of all his prosperity […], when he saw one of his wounds bleed, remembered that he was but a man, and remitted of his pride.
(obsolete) To diminish, abate.
To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
In this case, the law remits him to his antient and more certain right [...]
(obsolete) To send back.
(archaic) To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.
To restore or replace.
To postpone.
(obsolete) To refer (someone to something), direct someone's attention to something.
(chiefly Britain) Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.
(law) A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.
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