remissible
Americanadjective
adjective
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- nonremissible adjective
- remissibility noun
- remissibleness noun
- unremissible adjective
Etymology
Origin of remissible
1570–80; < Middle French < Late Latin remissibilis. See remiss, -ible
Example Sentences
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"The affair," Hervey adds, "grew as serious as that of the Greens and the Blues under Justinian at Constantinople; an anti-Handelist was looked upon as an anti-courtier, and voting against the Court in Parliament was hardly a less remissible or more venial sin than speaking against Handel or going to the Lincoln's Inn Fields Opera."
From Project Gutenberg
Now irreparability belongs to sin committed out of malice, which, according to some, is irremissible: whereas reparability belongs to sins committed through weakness or ignorance, which are remissible.
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