remissory

English

Adjective

remissory (comparative more remissory, superlative most remissory)

  1. Serving or tending to pardon, or to secure remission.
    remissory power
    remissory sentence
    • 1549 January 18, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough:
      They would have us saved by a daily oblation propitiatory; by a sacrifice expiatory, or remissory.

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