Word
Pardon
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
par-don
Definition
- v. t. - The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or
of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment;
absolution.
- v. t. - An official warrant of remission of penalty.
- v. t. - The state of being forgiven.
- 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.
- v. t. - To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the
punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.
- v. t. - To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without
punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses.
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