Definition of "remission of sin" []

• The act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "From all which it appeareth that the meaning of the word hilasmos, or “propitiation,” which Christ is said to be, is that whereby the law is covered, God appeased and reconciled, sin expiated, and the sinner pardoned; whence pardon, and remission of sin is so often placed as the product and fruit of his blood-shedding, whereby he was a “propitiation,” Matt. xxvi."
• "The two moments of actual justification, namely the remission of sin and the sanctification, are at the same time moments of habitual justification, and become the formal operations of grace."
• "Such a remission of sin could not consist in a mere covering or non-imputation of sins, which continue their existence out of view; it must necessarily consist in the real obliteration and annihilation of the guilt."