remission of sin

Questions about remission of sin

What does remission of sin mean?

remission of sin means "the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance".

What is another word for remission of sin?

Close synonyms include absolution, remission, remittal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is remission of sin a common word?

remission of sin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.