remit
[verb, noun ri-mit; noun ree-mit]
verb (used with object), re·mit·ted, re·mit·ting.
verb (used without object), re·mit·ted, re·mit·ting.
noun
Origin of remit
1325–75; Middle English remitten < Latin remittere to send back, let go back, concede, allow, equivalent to re- re- + mittere to send
Synonyms for remit
Antonyms for remit
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Related Words for remitted
defer, square, pay, route, dispatch, consign, forward, settle, address, transmit, mail, post, ship, suspend, pardon, wane, dwindle, reduce, soften, decreaseExamples from the Web for remitted
Contemporary Examples of remitted
Historical Examples of remitted
The pardon cannot touch the guilt; but when the guilt is remitted, there is still the penalty.
Short Studies on Great SubjectsJames Anthony Froude
If this tax was remitted, would you not get work yourselves, and on your own account too?
Sophisms of the ProtectionistsFrederic Bastiat
This amount was remitted, in the twelve months preceding the war, in specie.
Albert GallatinJohn Austin Stevens
Money was remitted to London either by carrier or through some merchant.
The History of LondonWalter Besant
As he was a poor man the debt was remitted, but he was obliged to leave the province.
The Greatest Highway in the WorldAnonymous
remit
verb (rɪˈmɪt) -mits, -mitting or -mitted (mainly tr)
noun (ˈriːmɪt, rɪˈmɪt)
Word Origin for remit
C14: from Latin remittere to send back, release, re- + mittere to send
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
remit
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
remit
[rĭ-mĭt′]
v.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.