Index of English words, starting with "pa"

(1) - Pardon (v. t.) To give leave (of departure) to.
(2) - Pardon (v. t.) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
(3) - Pardon (v. t.) To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses.
(4) - Pardon (v. t.) To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.
(5) - Pardon (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.
(6) - Pardon (v. t.) The state of being forgiven.
(7) - Pardon (v. t.) An official warrant of remission of penalty.
(8) - Pardon (v. t.) The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.

(1) - Pardonable (a.) 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.

(1) - Pardonableness (n.) The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin.

(1) - Pardoner (n.) A seller of indulgences.
(2) - Pardoner (n.) One who pardons.