What is "remits"

Usage examples of "remits".

From this time forth not only is the law which protects provisioning powerless against the disturbers of sale and circulation, but the Assembly actually sanctions their acts, since it decrees[29] the stoppage of all proceedings commenced against them, remits sentences already passed, and sets free all who are imprisoned or in irons.

God remits guilt to no one unless at the same time he humbles him in all things and makes him submissive to the vicar, the priest.

As a matter of fact, the pope remits to souls in purgatory no penalty which, according to canon law, they should have paid in this life.

Dick is wild with joy, and my aunt remits me a guinea by the next post.