remission

Noun

• the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance

• (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)

• a payment of money sent to a person in another place

• an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
  • his cancer is in remission
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  absolution , remittal , remission of sin , remitment , remit , remittance , subsidence