pardon

Speech parts

1. pardon - Noun

2. pardon - Verb

3. pardon - Interjection

Meaning

The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.

An official warrant of remission of penalty.

The state of being forgiven.

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.

To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.

To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses.

To refrain from exacting as a penalty.

To give leave (of departure) to.

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Please excuse my dirty hands Source: Internet

Ford pardoned Nixon Source: Internet

The Thanksgiving turkey was pardoned by the President Source: Internet

A few days back, the said he was considering a pardon for Snowden, who gave a trove of secret files in 2013 to news organizations that disclosed vast domestic and international surveillance operations carried out by the US intelligence department. Source: Internet

A condition of Raleigh's pardon was avoidance of any hostility against Spanish colonies or shipping. Source: Internet

Aelswith renounced Alfred's pardon and put Uhtred in prison, preventing him from saving Thyra, the only living relative he had of his Dane family. Source: Internet

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