Definition of "remissive" []

• Remitting; forgiving; abating. (adjective)

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• "Is the nature of the cancer aggressive, stable or remissive?"
• "And, O my Guardian Angel, too remissive of thy Charge! why had I not some secret Warnings of my future Fate? why did I range so long in Foreign Courts, in search of trifling Pleasures, and unavailing Knowledge, while my"
• "Medea's next encounter with Jason sees her in remissive attitude, as she asks her former husband to let her have her two children back."