remit

1. (transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.Examples: "Such a Step as this would raise a Succession of able Seamen, and in a few Years would come to remit a thousand, or perhaps two or three thousand sturdy Youths every Year into the general Class of English Seamen;"; "Doctor Strong refers to me in public as a promising young scholar. Mr. Dick is wild with joy, and my aunt remits me a guinea by the next post."; "The Supreme Court today allowed major sponsors, including LG Electronics India (LGEI), to remit foreign exchange for the tournament."transitive

2. (transitive) To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).Examples: "Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits."; "Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained."; "Mrs. Western was a very good-natured Woman, and ordinarily of a forgiving Temper. She had lately remitted the Trespass of a Stage-coach Man, who had overturned her Post-chaise into a Ditch;"transitive

3. (transitive) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.Examples: "to remit the performance of an obligation"; "1798, Hannah Brand, Huniades; or, The Siege of Belgrade, Act V, Scene 8, in Plays and Poems, Norwich, p. 131, I knelt for pardon, for this breach of Oath, Which, thou forgiving, I then shall hope Heaven will remit hereafter punishment;"; "The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties without limit."transitive

4. (transitive, obsolete) To give up; omit; cease doing.Examples: "1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 12, 19 November, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, p. 124, Among our own sex, there is no race of men more apt to indulge a spirit of acrimony, and to remit their natural Good Humour, than authors."; "He who connected himself with a woman whose brother, sister, or other relations, were fugitives, would probably be tempted to remit his pursuit of them, and even to favour their concealment."; "I was obliged at last almost entirely to remit my visits to the Grove, at the expense of deeply offending Mrs. Hargrave and seriously afflicting poor Esther, who really values my society for want of better [...]"obsoletetransitive

5. (transitive) To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).Examples: "Our Supream Foe in time may much remit His anger,"; "The wind at sea generally blows with an even steady gale; the wind at land puffs by intervals, encreasing its strength, and remitting it, without any apparent cause."; "Their confidence revived, they might in a short time remit in some degree their watchfulness over my movements, and I should then be the better enabled to avail myself of any opportunity which presented itself for escape."transitive

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).Examples: "Great Alexander in the midst of all his prosperity […], when he saw one of his wounds bleed, remembered that he was but a man, and remitted of his pride."; "1775, Samuel Jackson Pratt, The Legend of Benignus, Chapter 5, in Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence, London: G. Robinson and J. Bew, Volume 1, p. 97, At the end of about two months, the severity of my fate began to remit of its rigour."intransitiveobsolete