Pardon(v. t.) The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
Pardon(v. t.) An official warrant of remission of penalty.
Pardon(v. t.) The state of being forgiven.
Pardon(v. t.) A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.
Pardon(v. t.) To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.
Pardon(v. t.) To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses.
Pardon(v. t.) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
Pardon(v. t.) To give leave (of departure) to.
Pardonable(a.) Admitting of pardon; not requiring the excution of penalty; venial; excusable; -- applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit.
Pardonableness(n.) The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin.
Pardonably(adv.) In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.
Pardoned(imp. & p. p.) of Pardon
Pardoner(n.) One who pardons.
Pardoner(n.) A seller of indulgences.
Pardoning(a.) Relating to pardon; having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon; merciful; as, the pardoning power; a pardoning God.
Pardoning(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pardon
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