Definition of "remit" in English

verb

1. (transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.

   • The Supreme Court today allowed major sponsors, including LG Electronics India (LGEI), to remit foreign exchange for the tournament.

2. (transitive) To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).

3. (transitive) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.

   • 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;

4. (transitive, obsolete) To give up; omit; cease doing.

   • 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.

5. (transitive) To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).

   • 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.

7. (intransitive, obsolete) To diminish, abate.

   • 1720, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Volume 6, “Observations on the Twenty-Second Book,” no. 25, p. 52, … this is very agreeable to the Nature of Achilles; his Anger abates very slowly; it is stubborn, yet still it remits:
   • 1783, Samuel Johnson, letter to James Boswell dated 30 September, 1783, in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, Volume 2, p. 467, … I have been for these ten days much harrassed with the gout, but that has now remitted.

8. (transitive) To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).

9. (transitive, obsolete) To send back.

10. (transitive, archaic) To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.

11. (transitive) To restore or replace.

12. (transitive) To postpone.

13. (transitive, obsolete) To refer (someone to something), direct someone's attention to something.