remissory

adj

remissory

adj
1

Serving or tending to pardon, or to secure remission.

  • remissory power
  • remissory sentence
1 more example
  • They would have us saved by a daily oblation propitiatory; by a sacrifice expiatory, or remissory.1549 January 18, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough:

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