remit
verb (used with object)
to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment.
had remitted
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past perfectof remit.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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From the amount of his salary which he had remitted for my hospital expenses he could hardly have left himself money to pay for his meals at Higgleston's one doubtful restaurant.
From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin
One scoundrel, some time ago, sent a lady who had remitted him three dollars a large needle, and wrote that it was “the best sewing machine in the world.”
From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe
He had indignantly rejected the ample remuneration which Sir Alexander had remitted for his services.
From The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) by Susanna Moodie
There remains proof that he had remitted more than a hundred and eighty thousand pounds through the Dutch East India Company, and more than forty thousand pounds through the English Company.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
The holiday-task was put away, not because Mr. Lorimer had remitted it, but because Avery—with rare despotism—had insisted upon removing it from her patient's reach.
From The Bars of Iron by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
