remissible, a.
(rɪˈmɪsɪb(ə)l)
[a. F. rémissible (15th c.), or ad. L. remissibilis; see remiss v. and -ible.]
Capable or admitting of remission; that may be remitted.
| 1577 Fulke Answ. True Christian 90 Thou wouldest vouche safe to pardon, and to make it remissible. a 1594 R. Greenham Wks. (1599) 70 If you turne to the Lord..your sin is remissible. 1627–77 Feltham Resolves ii. ix. 177 Some sins..they allow.. to be such as deserue Punishment, although..remissible. a 1703 Burkitt On N.T. Heb. ix. 22 Though man had repented,..yet his sins could not have been remitted, had not this blood made it remissible. 1875 Poste Gaius iii. (ed. 2) 452 An obligation remissible by the private individual whose primary rights are violated. |
Hence reˈmissibleness, remissibility.
| a 1658 O. Sedgwick (title), The Anatomy of secret Sins, [etc.],..Together with the remissibleness of all sin. |