Definition of remiss

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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..

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Irremissible :: Irremissible (a.) Not remissible; unpardonable; as, irremissible crimes..
Paroxysm :: Paroxysm (n.) The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions..
Remittitur :: Remittitur (n.) A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages..
Remissible :: Remissible (a.) Capable of being remitted or forgiven.
Irremission :: Irremission (n.) Refusal of pardon.
Absolve :: Absolve (v. t.) To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment..
Remissive :: Remissive (a.) Remitting; forgiving; abating.
Remissory :: Remissory (a.) Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive..
Remissly :: Remissly (adv.) In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
Remission :: 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 :: Remission (n.) The act of sending back.
Remission :: Remission (n.) Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
Remission :: Remission (n.) The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up..
Remissibility :: Remissibility (n.) The state or quality of being remissible.
Indulgence :: Indulgence (n.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory..
Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To neglect; to be remiss in.
Remitment :: Remitment (n.) The act of remitting, or the state of being remitted; remission..
Irremittable :: Irremittable (a.) Not capable of being remitted; irremissible.
Relaxation :: Relaxation (n.) Remission from attention and effort; indulgence in recreation, diversion, or amusement..
Remittent :: Remittent (a.) Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions.
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