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remissory

remissory adjective: serving or tending to pardon, or to secure remission.

Adjective

remissory (comparative more remissory, superlative most remissory)

  1. Serving or tending to pardon, or to secure remission.
    • remissory power
    • remissory sentence

Forms of remissory

comparativemore remissory
superlativemost remissory

Questions about remissory

What does remissory mean?
Remissory means serving or tending to pardon, or to secure remission.
What part of speech is remissory?
Remissory is an adjective.

Words near remissory in the dictionary

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

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