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pardonable
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Word definitions for pardonable in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But pardonable errors are errors none the less. ▪ Surely these are all legitimate stratagems for the diarist-and using them would be a pardonable offence. ▪ The latter can, declares S E Finer with pardonable exaggeration, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Old French pardonable (12c.), from pardoner (see pardon (v.)). Related: Pardonably .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Capable of being pardoned.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pardonable \Par"don*a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. pardonnable.] 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.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. admitting of being pardoned [ant: unpardonable ]
Usage examples of pardonable.
I do not propose any reform so drastic as to restore their original names to the western rivers of the Peninsula, but content myself, after years of research, with distinguishing the original, or right, or de lure names from the de facto names, the product of pardonable misidentifications sanctioned, in many cases, by half a century of popular and official usage.
She was just in time to witness a pardonable but rather embarrassing mistake on the part of a lady who had wriggled her way with unstayable determination towards the bareheaded Cyprian, and was now breathlessly demanding the sale price of a handbag which had taken her fancy.
Every special virtue removes formally the habit of the opposite vice, just as whiteness removes blackness from the same subject: but penance removes every sin effectively, inasmuch as it works for the destruction of sins, according as they are pardonable through the grace of God if man co-operate therewith.
However, this failing is common to women, and is a pardonable one, since to be youthful is the greatest of all advantages to them.
He at length concluded with again blaming the action as inconsiderate, and which, he said, was pardonable only in a child.
Lakelands, music, public affairs, the pardonable foibles of friends created to amuse their fellows, operatic heroes and heroines, exhibitions of pictures, the sorrows of Crowned Heads, so serviceable ever to mankind as an admonition to the ambitious, a salve to the envious!
She had plenty of natural common sense, little wit, for the cultivation of which she had no opportunities, and she was in a state of ignorance only pardonable in a nun.
This feeling is peculiar to the sex, and is the only cause of coquetry, pardonable in a woman, detestable in a man.
Then you must change one of them or wait till another time to play, for in England to pay in gold is a solecism only pardonable in a stranger.
Evidently he was saving his own coup for a bonne bouche, and, at length, with pardonable satisfaction, he produced it.
It was for others thou didst fight, my son, and for others it is pardonable to do battle.
As descendants of old English nobles still cherish in the traditions of their houses how that this king or that king tarried a day with some favored ancestor three hundred years ago, no doubt the descendants of the woman of Samaria, living there in Shechem, still refer with pardonable vanity to this conversation of their ancestor, held some little time gone by, with the Messiah of the Christians.
The barrels have filled Rebel hearts not only with fear but also with a good, healthy respect for the prowess of the American soldier and for the genius lying behind what I call with pardonable pride old-fashioned Yankee ingenuity.