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Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.

Pardoning :: Pardoning (a.) Relating to pardon; having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon; merciful; as, the pardoning power; a pardoning God..

Remitter :: Remitter (n.) One who pardons.

Commutation :: Commutation (n.) The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment..

Pardoning :: Pardoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pardo.

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment..

Irremission :: Irremission (n.) Refusal of pardon.

Justify :: Justify (a.) To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.

Pardoner :: Pardoner (n.) One who pardons.

Penance :: Penance (n.) A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church..

Forgiveness :: Forgiveness (n.) Disposition to pardon; willingness to forgive.

Reprobate :: Reprobate (v. t.) To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.

Probator :: Probator (n.) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence..

Ignoscible :: Ignoscible (a.) Pardonable.

Oblivion :: Oblivion (n.) Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; as, an act of oblivion..

Forgive :: Forgive (v. t.) To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven.

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

Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.

Pardoned :: Pardoned (imp. & p. p.) of Pardo.

Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it..

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