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- adjective
Forgiven ofwrongdoings . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pardon .
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Examples
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The word pardoned may also be translated “forgive.”
Surviving in an Angry World Charles F. Stanley 2010
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Mr. Deutch, who was head of the CIA under President Clinton, wound up getting in trouble because of that, and President Clinton at the end of his term pardoned John Deutch.
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August 5th, 2009 2: 22 pm ET hey, republican, democrat, libertarian, green, whatever party you are, I know that if I were put in that position, and president clinton or any past or current president got me pardoned from a situation like that, I would be forever greatful.
Freed journalist: 'We knew the nightmare was...coming to an end 2009
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Governor Altgeld pardoned from the state's prison the anarchists who had been sentenced there after the Haymarket riot, gave the opponents of this most reasonable
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910
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Pathetick Oration; and, in short, pardoned the guilty Father for this early Promise of Virtue in the Son.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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Nixon resigned in disgrace, and was pardoned, which is why he had no convictions.
Discourse.net: Stopping the Rot in the US Justice System 2009
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Remeber also that Bill Clinton during his term pardoned two of the weather undergorund activists while they where in jail.
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If Libby or anybody else is pardoned, that is the end of this presidency.
11/05/2005 2005
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Let us suppose that all debts are cancelled, that is to say pardoned, forgotten, erased.
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Perhaps I may be pardoned a word devoted to my appearance in those days.
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