Definitions of remission:

• noun:   (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
• noun:   an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)

  Example: "His cancer is in remission"

• noun:   the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
• noun:   a payment of money sent to a person in another place