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