transitive verb. To release (a person) from punishment or disfavor for wrongdoing or a fault: synonym: forgive.

transitive verb. To allow (an offense or fault) to pass without punishment or disfavor.

transitive verb. To make courteous allowance for; excuse.

noun. The act of pardoning.

noun. undefined

noun. Exemption of a convicted person from the penalties of an offense or crime by the power of the executor of the laws.

noun. An official document or warrant declaring such an exemption.

noun. Allowance or forgiveness for an offense or a discourtesy.

noun. An indulgence.

To remit the penalty or punishment due on account of (an offense); pass by or leave without penalty, resentment, or blame; forgive; overlook.

To absolve (an offender) from liability for an offense or crime committed; release (a person) from the punishment or penalty due on account of some fault or offense.

To excuse; indulge; especially, to excuse from doing something.

Synonyms Pardon, Forgive. These words are often synonymous. Strictly, pardon expresses the act of an official or a superior, remitting all or the remainder of the punishment that belongs to an offense: as, the queen or the governor pardons a convict before the expiration of his sentence. Forgive refers especially to the feelings; it means that one not only resolves to overlook the offense and reestablishes amicable relations with the offender, but gives up all ill feeling against him. See pardon, n.

noun. Forgiveness of an offender or of his offense or crime; a passing over without punishment; remission of penalty.

noun. In law, a free remission of the legal consequences of guilt or of some part of them; an act of grace proceeding from the power charged with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law prescribes for a crime he has committed. Marshall.

noun. The deed or warrant by which such remission is declared.

noun. A papal indulgence, or remission of the temporal punishment due to sin, usually for a stated time.

noun. Allowance; excuse.

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

noun. An official warrant of remission of penalty.

noun. The state of being forgiven.

noun. A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amnesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.

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

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

transitive verb. To refrain from exacting as a penalty.

transitive verb. To give leave (of departure) to.

transitive verb. forgive me; excuse me; -- a phrase used also to express courteous denial or contradiction, or to request forgiveness for a mild transgression, such as bumping a person while passing.

noun. Forgiveness for an offence.

noun. An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed.

verb. To forgive.

verb. To grant an official pardon for a crime; unguilt.

interjection. Often used when someone does not understand what another person says.

verb. accept an excuse for

verb. grant a pardon to

noun. the formal act of liberating someone

noun. the act of excusing a mistake or offense

noun. a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense

"Fear not -- They were afraid that they should not obtain pardon from the Chaldeans for their acts."

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ask one's pardon  pardon me  

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clemency  forgive  mercifulness  mercy  warrant  

Arden  Garden  garden  harden  

absolution  acceptance  amnesty  apology  approval  

absolution  absolution  absolve  absolve  accept  

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