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His Most Reverend Eminence, Cardinal Segura, has remitted into the hands of the Holy Father free renunciation of the Archbishop's See at Toledo.

From Time Magazine Archive

The spectacle which he afforded was so wonderful in the eyes of the Byzantines, that the witnesses related it in astonishment to Procopius, who, himself amazed, has remitted it to us.

From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Dahn, Felix

"M. de Roncherat, who was sent with your majesty's musketeers, has remitted me some papers," replied Colbert.

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre

This propensity of Samuel's has been significantly rebuked by Lord Palmerston, who has remitted whippings and shortened terms of imprisonment.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

The asthma, however, has remitted; my breath is still much obstructed, but is more free than it was.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by Boswell, James