The act of absolving or remitting

• A payment of money sent to a person in another place
• Pardon; forgiveness
• Bishop burnt at stake? In hindsight about time to show forgiveness
• Payment
• Formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
• An abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Anything remitted; remittance

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remittal \Re*mit"tal\ (-tal), n. A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. --Swift.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a payment of money sent to a person in another place [syn: remittance , remission , remitment ] an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission" [syn: remission , subsidence ] the act of absolving ...