The property of being merciless.
To change the mission of; to provide with a new mission.
A reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence; in particular, the reduction of a prison sentence as a recognition of the prisoner's good behaviour.
A pardon of a sin; (chiefly historical, also figuratively) the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a (legal) claim or a debt.
An act of remitting, returning, or sending back.
An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent.
A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.
A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal.
Reflection or scattering of light by a material; reemission.