Remission

The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.

Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.

Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.

A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.

The act of sending back.

Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.

an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission"

(law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)