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rĕmissĭo , ōnis, f. id. (acc. to remitto, I. A. and B.),
I.a sending back or away, releasing
I. Lit. (rare).
1. A sending back, returning; of persons: “obsidum captivorumque,Liv. 27, 17, 1.—Of things, a throwing back, reflecting: “splendoris,Vitr. 7, 3, 9.—
2. A letting down, lowering: “ex superciliorum aut remissione aut contractione,Cic. Off. 1, 41, 146.—
II. Trop.
A. A slackening, relaxing, abating, diminishing, remitting; remission, relaxation, abatement (syn. relaxatio): “animus intentione suā depellit pressum omnem ponderum, remissione autem sic urgetur, ut se nequeat extollere,Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 54: “contentiones vocis et remissiones,id. de Or. 1, 61, 261; cf. id. Brut. 91, 314; so, “vocis,Quint. 1, 10, 25: σφυγμὸς est intentio motūs et remissio in corde et in arteria, Gell. 18, 10, 10: “remissio lenitatis quādam gravitate et contentione firmatur,laxity, Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 212: “operis,Varr. R. R. 1, 17, 7; cf. “laboris,id. ib. 2, 6, 4; Quint. 3, 8, 29: “tales igitur amicitiae sunt remissione usus eluendae,Cic. Lael. 21, 76: “senescentis morbi remissio,id. Fam. 7, 26, 1; so, “febris,Suet. Tib. 73: “doloris,Scrib. Comp. 99.—
2. Slackness, laxness, want of spirit: “in acerbissimā injuriā remissio animi ac dissolutio,Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 9.—
4. Mildness, gentleness, lenity: “(Adversarius) tum ad severitatem, tum ad remissionem animi est contorquen dus,Cic. de Or. 2, 17, 72 (cf. remissus, B. 1.): so, “remissione poenae,by a relaxing, diminishing of punishment, by a milder punishment, id. Cat. 4, 6, 13.—
B. (Acc. to remitto, I. B. 2. b.) A remitting of a penalty, etc., a remission, Col. 1, 7, 1; Suet. Caes. 20; Plin. Ep. 8, 2, 6; 10, 8, 5: “remissio tributi in triennium,Tac. A. 4, 13: “nuntiationis,remission, abrogation, Dig. 39, 1, 8, § 4.— Plur.: “post magnas remissiones,reduction of rent, Plin. Ep. 9, 37, 2.—
C. In eccl. Lat., remission, forgiveness of sin, etc.: “delicti,Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 28: peccatorum, Ambros. de Isaac et Anim. 1, 1; Vulg. Matt. 26, 28; id. Act. 2, 38.— *
III. A repetition: “nova ludorum remissio,Petr. 60, 5.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (30):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 5.2.9
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 7.26.1
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 9.24.3
    • New Testament, Matthew, 26.28
    • Cicero, For Marcus Caelius, 17.39
    • Cicero, For Archias, 7.16
    • Cicero, Against Catiline, 4.6.13
    • New Testament, Acts, 2.38
    • Vitruvius, On Architecture, 7.3.9
    • Tacitus, Annales, 4.13
    • Tacitus, Agricola, 9
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 1.61
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.17
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.53
    • Suetonius, Divus Julius, 20
    • Suetonius, Tiberius, 73
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 10.8
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 4.3.1
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 8.2.6
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 9.37.2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 27, 17.1
    • Cicero, De Amicitia, 21
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 2.23
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.41
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 3.8
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 3, 8.29
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 10.25
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 15.2.5
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 18.10.10
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 1.7.1
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