pardon

sorry, I'm sorry, I beg your pardon, I apologize


pardon

Negerhollands: pardon, bardon

→ Saramaccan: padón


pardon

Negerhollands: pardon, bardon


pardon

[…] a step, that could not be taken with the least hope of ever obtaining pardon from or reconciliation with any of my friends; […]

1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:

According to this logic, the pardons Balteira gained on her pilgrimage should have revirginated her, and would have if she had an 'iron box', or a firm dedication to her Christian faith, with which to guard her chastity.”

1997, Denise Keyes Filios, Women Out of Bounds:

The President[…]shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from July^([sic – meaning January]) 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.

1974 September 8, Gerald R. Ford, 00:24 from the start, in Proclamation 4311, archived from the original on 2017-05-18, page 2:

But the president's most irreversible, almost God-like power is the authority granted to him under Article II, Section 2, of the United States Constitution, "to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses Against the United States. . . ."
The power is absolute-even a serial killer could be pardoned-and utterly unreviewable. It cannot be rescinded by the next president. The president may grant a pardon before a trial, after a trial, or without a trial. Once granted, a pardon can never be taken away.

2001, Barbara Olson, “The Final Frenzy: Finishing Touches on the Legend”, in The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House (Politics/Current Affairs), Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7:

(law) 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.

en-noun

pardon (countable and uncountable, plural pardons)

From Middle English pardonen, from Old French pardoner (modern French pardonner), from Late Latin perdonare, from per- + donare, possibly a calque (if not vice-versa) of a Germanic word represented by Frankish *firgeban (“to forgive, give up completely”), from *fir- + *geban. Akin to Old High German fargeban, firgeban (“to forgive”), Old English forġiefan (“to forgive”). More at forgive.


pardon

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

I hope you will not find he has outstepped the truth more than may be pardoned, in consideration of the motive.

1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], Emma: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:

Well! the King of France died pardoning & pitying all those who had tortured his Soul & Body, a great Pattern for us all.

1793 March 19, Hester Piozzi, Thraliana:

In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

(transitive) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.

The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.

1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:

(transitive, law) To grant an official pardon for a crime.

en-verb

pardon (third-person singular simple present pardons, present participle pardoning, simple past and past participle pardoned)

pardons (present singular third-person)
pardoning (participle present)
pardoned (participle past)
pardoned (past)


pardon

Often used when someone does not understand what another person says.


pardon

desc

→ Bulgarian: пардон (pardon) (colloquial)

→ Czech: pardon (colloquial)

desctree

→ Dutch: pardon
Negerhollands: pardon, bardon
→ Saramaccan: padón

→ English: pardon

→ Greek: μπαρδόν (bardón)

→ Hungarian: pardon

→ Macedonian: пардон (pardon)

→ Ottoman Turkish: پاردون (pardon)
Turkish: pardon

→ Polish: pardon

→ Romanian: pardon

→ Russian: пардон (pardon) (colloquial)


pardon

Dutch: pardon
Negerhollands: pardon, bardon

German: Pardon

Hungarian: pardon

Romanian: pardon

Swedish: pardon


pardon

I beg your pardon
I beg your pardon#English

pardon!, pardon me!, excuse me!, I beg your pardon!, sorry!

From French pardon, primarily via German Pardon.


pardon

pardon (nominative singular)
pardonok (nominative plural)
pardont (accusative singular)
pardonokat (accusative plural)
pardonnak (dative singular)
pardonoknak (dative plural)
pardonnal (instrumental singular)
pardonokkal (instrumental plural)
pardonért (causal-final singular)
pardonokért (causal-final plural)
pardonná (singular translative)
pardonokká (plural translative)
pardonig (singular terminative)
pardonokig (plural terminative)
pardonként (essive-formal singular)
pardonokként (essive-formal plural)
pardonban (inessive singular)
pardonokban (inessive plural)
pardonon (singular superessive)
pardonokon (plural superessive)
pardonnál (adessive singular)
pardonoknál (adessive plural)
pardonba (illative singular)
pardonokba (illative plural)
pardonra (singular sublative)
pardonokra (plural sublative)
pardonhoz (allative singular)
pardonokhoz (allative plural)
pardonból (elative singular)
pardonokból (elative plural)
pardonról (delative singular)
pardonokról (delative plural)
pardontól (ablative singular)
pardonoktól (ablative plural)
pardoné (singular)
pardonoké (plural)
pardonéi (singular)
pardonokéi (plural)
pardonom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
pardonjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
pardonod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
pardonjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
pardonja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
pardonjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
pardonunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
pardonjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
pardonotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
pardonjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
pardonjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
pardonjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


pardon

pardon (nominative singular)
pardony (nominative plural)
pardonu (genitive singular)
pardonów (genitive plural)
pardonowi (dative singular)
pardonom (dative plural)
pardon (accusative singular)
pardony (accusative plural)
pardonem (instrumental singular)
pardonami (instrumental plural)
pardonie (locative singular)
pardonach (locative plural)
pardonie (singular vocative)
pardony (plural vocative)


pardon

(colloquial) sorry, excuse me, I beg your pardon


pardon

(dated) pardon, pardoning, forgiveness, excuse


pardon

utan pardon


pardon

From Ottoman Turkish پاردون (pardon), from French pardon.