remission vs repatriation

remission

noun
  • An act of remitting, returning, or sending back. 

  • 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 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. 

verb
  • To change the mission of; to provide with a new mission. 

repatriation

noun
  • The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship. 

  • The process of returning artworks, museum exhibits, etc. to their country of origin. 

  • The process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country. 

How often have the words remission and repatriation occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )