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1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying v. §5. 289 This is a greater testimony of the certainty of the remissibility of our greatest sins; for publike sins..are most commonly the greatest.

1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 146 Those places of Scripture..must and ought to be understood not of Actual Remission..but of a Remissibility or State of Pardon.

1729 T. Stackhouse Compl. Body Divinity iv. i. §2. 423 That, which is previous to Repentance, consists in a bare Remissibility of Sin.

1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) xvii. §25 The eleventh and last of all the properties that seem to be requisite in a lot of punishment is that of remissibility.

1838 F. P. Kenrick Primacy of Apostolic See Vindicated (1845) ix. 125 The Montanist heresy, which condemned second marriages, and denied the remissibility of heinous sins, prevailed in various parts of Asia Minor and Phrygia.

1896 School Rev. 4 632 In the selection of any punishment for a given case there are..conditions to be considered, i.e., variability,..popularity, simplicity, and remissibility.

1955 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 28 Sept. 7/1 This Legislature will have an opportunity to prove its ability and willingness to rectify its remissibility in the 1955 regular session.

1988 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 55 1014 Women faced different social constraints upon the use of violence than men did, while facing precisely the same legal requirements governing the remissibility of homicide.