Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to pardon; having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon; merciful
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- verb Present participle of
pardon .
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Examples
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Clinton finished his term pardoning-among a raft of miscreants, Linda Evans, a former member of the Weatherman terrorist group led by Obama pal, William Ayers.
The Reality Check 2008
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“One person that Bush may consider pardoning is Bobby Fischer.”
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One person that Bush may consider pardoning is Bobby Fischer.
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Oh, you who wept over the misfortunes of virtue; you, who pitied the unfortunate Justine; in pardoning these sketches, which are perhaps
'Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_ 2003
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God's perfections of love, mercy, goodness, and truth are manifested (his name, compare Ps 9: 10) in pardoning sin, and the greatness of sin renders pardon more needed.
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Having got the king pledged, she avowed it to be her design to satisfy the royal conscience, that in pardoning Absalom he was doing nothing more than he would have done in the case of a stranger, where there could be no imputation of partiality.
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Abraham cast out his son Ishmael; Jacob disinherited his son Reuben and cursed Simeon and Levi; but our heavenly Father, in pardoning sin, is God, and not man, Hos. xi.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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God's way towards us in pardoning mercy; how ready he is to receive those that return to him.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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The power of the God of grace in pardoning sin and sparing sinners is as much to be admired as the power of the God of nature in dividing the waters.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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As in pardoning the penitent, so in punishing the impenitent, he is God and not man, Hos. xi.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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