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pardon

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Word definitions for pardon in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "to forgive for offense or sin," from Old French pardoner (see pardon (n.)).\n'I grant you pardon,' said Louis XV to Charolais, who, to divert himself, had just killed a man; 'but I also pardon whoever will kill you.' [Marquis de Sade, "Philosophy ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. interjection COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES forgive/excuse/pardon the pun (= used to show you know you are making a pun ) free pardon pardon/forgive the expression (= used when you have said a word or phrase that might offend someone ) ▪ After the climb, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pardon \Par"don\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pardoned (p[aum]r"d'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Pardoning .] [Either fr. pardon, n., or from F. pardonner, LL. perdonare; L. per through, thoroughly, perfectly + donare to give, to present. See Par- , and Donation .] ...

Usage examples of pardon.

I suppose that in origin it was anticlerical and I should ask your pardon.

It was within the competence of Congress to declare that the amounts due to persons thus pardoned should not be paid out of the Treasury and that no general appropriation should extend to their claims.

Pardon me, milady, but Lord Rathburn would have my ballocks if he knew.

Therefore it seems that sins already pardoned do not return through ingratitude as manifested in these sins, any more than as shown in other sins.

I crave your pardon, my lord, for truly he was an old man in my youth, so it was said, and I thought the old margrave must be dead by now and the margraviate gone to his heirs.

I will grant you your life if you ask pardon for the crime you meditated, and for which you ought to be sorry.

Shaw, will admit that you have been wrong in all your harsh judgments of medo not deny themand will most humbly beg my pardon without the least trace of impertinence.

Theoretically, no one is directly responsible for my execution, since the immutable laws of quantum theory pardon or condemn me from each microsecond to the next.

Brabant whose wife was very ill, and he supposing that she was about to die, after many remonstrances and exhortations for the salvation of her soul, asked her pardon, and she pardoned him all his misdeeds, excepting that he had not worked her as much as he ought to have done--as will appear more plainly in the said story.

When the hour of her death drew near, she begged her husband to pardon her, and told him of the misdeeds she had committed during the years she had lived with him, and how such and such of the children belonged to a certain man, and such to another--that is to say those before-mentioned--and that after her death they would take charge of their own children.

He was much astonished to hear this news, nevertheless he pardoned her for all her misdeeds, and then she died, and he sent the children to the persons she had mentioned, who kept them.

There had been some doubt whether of right he should not have taken Lady Eustace, but it was held by Mrs Dick that her ladyship had somewhat impaired her rights by the eccentricities of her career, and also that she would amiably pardon any little wrongdoing against her of that kind,--whereas Lady Monogram was a person much to be considered.

I hope you will not find he has outstepped the truth more than may be pardoned, in consideration of the motive.

September, 1796, his Excellency, Governor Hunter, was pleased to present me with an absolute pardon, under the great seal of the colony, and appointed me a principal superintendant of the district of Parramatta, with a permanent salary of fifty pounds a year, in the room of Mr.

The dishonesty of this fellow I might, perhaps, have pardoned, but never his ingratitude.