PARDON

vt the state of being forgiven.

2. pardon ·vt to give leave (of departure) to.

3. pardon ·vt to refrain from exacting as a penalty.

4. pardon ·vt an official warrant of remission of penalty.

5. pardon ·vt to remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive;

— applied to offenses.

6. pardon ·vt to absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty;

— applied to the offender.

7. pardon ·vt the act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.

8. pardon ·vt 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.