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remissnesses

remissnesses is the plural of remissness.

Meaning of remissness

Noun

remissness (countable and uncountable, plural remissnesses)

  1. The characteristic of being remiss
    • Impunity and remissenes, for certain are the bane of a Commonwealth, but here the great art lyes to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things perswasion only is to work.1644, John Milton, Areopagitica

Questions about remissnesses

What is remissnesses the plural of?
Remissnesses is the plural of remissness.

Words near remissnesses in the dictionary

  1. remissions
  2. remissive
  3. remissiveness
  4. remissly
  5. remissness
  6. remissnesses
  7. remissory
  8. remit
  9. remitigate
  10. remitigated
  11. remitigates

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