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rémission

remission

noun reh-mee-SYOHN Rare

Origin: Latin remissio (a sending back, a relaxing)

Also means

forgiveness

Usage Note

Rémission has two main senses: in medicine, être en rémission means a disease (especially cancer) has temporarily or permanently reduced in severity; in a religious or legal sense, la rémission des péchés means the forgiveness of sins. The medical sense is far more common in modern usage.

Examples

"Son cancer est en rémission depuis six mois."

Natural Translation

His cancer has been in remission for six months.

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