Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Slackening: relaxing; causing abatement.
- Remitting; forgiving; pardoning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Remitting; forgiving; abating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Remitting; forgiving; abating.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Is the nature of the cancer aggressive, stable or remissive?
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Is the nature of the cancer aggressive, stable or remissive?
Dennis Santiago: Solving "Too Big to Fail": The Pursuit of Clarity 2010
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And, O my Guardian Angel, too remissive of thy Charge! why had I not some secret Warnings of my future Fate? why did I range so long in Foreign Courts, in search of trifling Pleasures, and unavailing Knowledge, while my
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Is the nature of the cancer aggressive, stable or remissive?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dennis Santiago 2010
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Is the nature of the cancer aggressive, stable or remissive?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dennis Santiago 2010
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Is the nature of the cancer aggressive, stable or remissive?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dennis Santiago 2010
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Is the nature of the cancer aggressive, stable or remissive?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dennis Santiago 2010
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Medea's next encounter with Jason sees her in remissive attitude, as she asks her former husband to let her have her two children back.
Opera Today 2009
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Philip Rieff he describes the shift in Western culture from "inhibitory" to "remissive".
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Philip Rieff he describes the shift in Western culture from "inhibitory" to "remissive".
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