Noun
Plural: remittances
Pronunciation and accent: rɪmɪtəns
Etymology: from the verb remit + -ance. Remit is analyzed in re- (= to) and mittere (= to send)
Definition: a. Something, as money, remitted from one place to another. b. The act of remitting or sending something, as money, to another place
Synonyms: transmittal
It may be translated by remesa, in Spanish; remise, in French; invio, in Italian.
We have it on record, […] that the Vectigal of Asia was farmed by a company of Roman knights, and that the latter were […] indebted to the bankers of Rome. Previous to the conquest of Asia by Pompey, the annual remittance amounted to nearly two millions of our money, and this must have been but a small portion of the sum exacted from the Asiatics by the Roman knights
James Ward (A history of gold)
To the public, I stand pretty nearly in the relation of the postman who leaves a packet at the door of an individual. If it contains pleasing intelligence, a billet from a mistress, a letter from an absent son, a remittance from a correspondent supposed to be bankrupt […]
Walter Scott (The Fortunes of Nigel)
[…] remittances would no longer be necessary from Spain to support the expenses of the array and government in the Netherlands.
John Motley (The Rise of the Dutch Republic)
[…] Pizarro dispatched an advice-boat with a letter of credit to Rio de Janeiro, to purchase what was wanting from the Portuguese. He sent at the same time an express across the continent to […] Chili, to be thence forwarded to the viceroy of Peru, informing him of the disasters that had befallen his squadron, and desiring a remittance of two hundred thousand dollars from the royal chest at Lima, to enable him to refit and victual his remaining ships.
Robert Kerr (Voyages and Travels)
Douglas, alarmed at first at the magnitude and imminent danger of the enterprise, retired to the Border, and applied for aid to his English ally; who sent him a pecuniary remittance.
Daniel Macintosh (History of Scotland)
It is said that the money was paid by instalments, and that the letter enclosing the last remittance contained these lines : […]
Adam and Charles Black (… Scotland)
Carbajal […] returned in triumph to La Plata. There he occupied himself with working the silver mines of Potosi, in which a vein, recently opened, [… was] to make richer returns than any yet discovered in Mexico or Peru; and he was soon enabled to send large remittances to Lima, deducting no stinted commission for himself.
William Prescott (… Conquest of Peru)
I wrote out my task and something more, corrected proofs, and made a handsome remittance of copy to the press.
The Journal of Walter Scott
