Pardon

·vt The state of being forgiven.

II. Pardon ·vt To give leave (of departure) to.

III. Pardon ·vt To refrain from exacting as a penalty.

IV. Pardon ·vt An official warrant of remission of penalty.

V. Pardon ·vt To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to Forgive;

— applied to offenses.

VI. Pardon ·vt To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty;

— applied to the offender.

VII. Pardon ·vt The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.

VIII. 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.