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Recrudescency :: Recrudescency (n.) Increased severity of a disease after temporary remission.

Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) An official warrant of remission of penalty.

Irremittable :: Irremittable (a.) Not capable of being remitted; irremissible.

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..

Remittent :: Remittent (a.) Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions.

Irremissible :: Irremissible (a.) Not remissible; unpardonable; as, irremissible crimes..

Remission :: Remission (n.) Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance..

Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.

Lache :: Lache (n.) Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; delay to assert a claim.

Off :: Off (adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off..

Irremission :: Irremission (n.) Refusal of pardon.

Recess :: Recess (n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school..

Period :: Period (n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission..

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..

Paroxysm :: Paroxysm (n.) The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions..

Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution..

Remissory :: Remissory (a.) Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive..

Slack :: Slack (superl.) Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service..

Inefficient :: Inefficient (a.) Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen; an inefficient administrator..

Remissly :: Remissly (adv.) In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.

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