remitted

Verb

remit (third-person singular simple present remits, present participle remitting, simple past and past participle remitted)

1. (transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
   • Such a Step as this would raise a Succession of able Seamen, and in a few Years would come to remit a thousand, or perhaps two or three thousand sturdy Youths every Year into the general Class of English Seamen;1728, Daniel Defoe, chapter 3, in Some Considerations on the Reasonableness and Necessity of Encreasing and Encouraging the Seamen, London, page 45
2. (transitive) To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offense, etc.).
   • Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal
     Remit thy other forfeits.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
3. (transitive) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.
   • to remit the performance of an obligation
4. (obsolete, transitive) To give up; omit; cease doing.
   • Among our own sex, there is no race of men more apt to indulge a spirit of acrimony, and to remit their natural Good Humour, than authors.1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 12, 19 November, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, p. 124
5. (transitive) To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
   • Our Supream Foe in time may much remit
     His anger,1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).
   • Great Alexander in the midst of all his prosperity […], when he saw one of his wounds bleed, remembered that he was but a man, and remitted of his pride., New York 2001, p.132-3

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