pardon
forgiveness for an offence.
Other meanings
An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed.
Related words
- pardonee
- Pardongate
- pardonless
- prepardon
- self-pardon
- I beg your pardon
- pardonmonger
- beg pardon
- beg someone's pardon
- begging your pardon
- Paschal pardon
Word history
From Latin "perdono".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pardon” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.