Pay or pardon

Usage examples of remit.

Court of Aldermen unanimously decided that no part of the agreement should be minished or remitted.

July 1603 King James had been over two months happily resident in England and had recently remitted recusant fines.

An underpaid sleuth with a cubby-hole and a nightstick and a remit to keep one eye on the shifty characters who walked in off the street and an even beadier eye on the dodgy ones who worked there.

Apres un bonjour echange, il se remit en marche, et, au lieu de continuer la grande route, prit le vieux chemin qui montait droit a la colline.

The tax of danegelt, so generally odious to the nation, was remitted in this reign.

The Mexican army, in its retreat, shall not take the property of any person without his consent and just indemnification, using only such articles as may be necessary for its subsistence, in cases when the owner may not be present, and remitting to the commander of the army of Texas, or to the commissioners to be appointed for the adjustment of such matters, an account of the value of the property consumed, the place where taken, and the name of the owner, if it can be ascertained.

The queen now committed affairs to the Marquis de Palmella, and issued proclamations restoring liberty of the press, and remitting the exorbitant burial fees demanded by the priests, which had been enforced by the government: these measures restored peace.

Eucharist, Extreme Unction, and by all the sacraments of the New Law without exception, wherein grace is conferred, venial sins are remitted.

Church of our Saviour little children believe through others, just as they contracted from others those sins which are remitted in Baptism.

And consequently, when the insincerity passes away, subsequent sins are indeed remitted, but by Penance, not by Baptism.

Wherefore they are not remitted, like the sins which preceded Baptism, as to the whole debt of punishment.

If therefore, by means of one of them, some venial sin is remitted, it follows that in like manner all are remitted, so that by beating his breast once, or by being sprinkled once with holy water, a man would be delivered from all his venial sins, which seems unreasonable.

Because just as past sins are remitted by subsequent Penance, so are deeds previously done in charity, deadened by subsequent sin.

When the indulgence of Theodoric had remitted two thirds of the Ligurian tribute, he condescended to explain the difficulties of his situation, and to lament the heavy though inevitable burdens which he imposed on his subjects for their own defence.

Petersburg, and to remit me through him every month a sum which would keep me in comfort.