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.
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.