a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 42 For this remyttyng and quyte-claymyng, the forsaid abbesse..yaf to hym viij mark.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 145 Some [adverbs] betoken remytting or slacking of a dede.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Evagrius Scholasticus vi. xi, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 506 After the remitting of your falts there raigned in you no lesse fortitude.

1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 259 The remitting of his hands.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 274 Eternall life..is recovered by the Remitting of mens Sins.

1671 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 501 Now is the time of proposing..the remitting of our levies of four thousand men, to which the treaty binds us.

1735 J. Burroughs View of Popery 58 Their preaching is, in a figurative way of speech, not unaptly stiled remitting of sin.

1782 W. Hastings Narr. Late Trans. Benares 30 I paid immediately the remaining part of the sum. The remitting of this to the army did not depend on me.

1849 J. H. Freese Commerc. Class-bk. 69 To order a sum of money to be received, by sending a Bill of Exchange to another person is called remitting.

1886 Times 5 May 15/4 Some there are who endeavour to explain away these remittings on the plea that in exchange Ireland had to bear new taxes or was suffering from the potato famine.

1937 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 8 319/2 Each student who is working considerably above his indicated ability is rewarded by the remitting of a part of his tuition fees.

1997 Polish News Bull. (Nexis) 5 Sept. The bill does not provide for a total remitting of a bulk of mines' debts.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. vi. 216 If Phlegmone, or anie other Tumour doeth degenerate and turne into Abcessus, the cure thereof in the beginning is finished and ended..by helpes and remedies that doe mitigate,..(that is) by resoluing and remitting medicines.

1654 N. Culpeper tr. S. Partlitz New Method of Physick iii. 462 You have either a Remitting [L. cum remissione], Quotidian, Tertian, or Quartan Feaver.

1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 728 When a Remitting Fever is turning Malignant.

a1704 T. Brown Satire upon Quack in Wks. (1720) I. 72 [They] never know The least remitting Interval of Woe.

a1776 R. James Vindic. Fever Powder in Diss. Fevers (1778) 82 Remitting or intermitting fevers may be excited by as many different causes as continual.

1832 R. Baird View Valley of Mississippi viii. 73 These maladies are intermitting and remitting bilious fevers.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xiv. 103 Against this margin, the great ‘drift’ through which we had been passing exerts a remitting action.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 72 This chronic progressive mode..is next in frequency of occurrence to the chronic remitting mode.

1904 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. (rev. ed.) VIII. 591/1 The tropical form of malaria..also frequently resembles the remitting type of yellow fever.

1960 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 29 309/2 A sixty-four year old former salesman was admitted for the sixth time for slowly progressive, remitting heart failure.

2009 Paediatrics & Child Health 19 88/2 (table) Chronic fatigue syndrome is a relapsing and remitting illness.