word of the week #6

remit

Source: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

How it was used: " If you are in an intelligible condition, i've thirty-five roubles to remit to you, as Semyon Semyonovitch has received from Afanasy Ivanovitch at your mamma's request instructions to that effect, as on previous occasions."

Definition: 1.

to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment.

2.	to refrain from inflicting or enforcing, as a punishment, sentence, etc.

3.	to refrain from exacting, as a payment or service.

4.	to pardon or forgive (a sin, offense, etc.).

5.	to slacken; abate; relax: to remit watchfulness. Your sentence: My mother informed me she will remit me the money on tuesday.