Devolution and Remission

noun

• The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality.
  • synonyms: degeneration
• The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government. ).
  • synonyms: devolvement

• (n.) The act of rolling down.
• (n.) Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor.

DEVOLUTION is the delegation of authority from higher to lower levels.

noun

• An abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease. )
  • usage: "his cancer is in remission"
  • synonyms: remittal, subsidence
• A payment of money sent to a person in another place.
  • synonyms: remittance, remittal, remitment
• Law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court. ()
  • synonyms: remitment, remit
• The act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance.
  • synonyms: absolution, remittal, remission of sin

• (n.) Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.
• (n.) The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning or giving up.
• (n.) A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.
• (n.) Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.
• (n.) The act of sending back.
• (n.) Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.