pardon

Sentences

Oh , I beg your pardon !

1. Forgiveness for an offence.
2. 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.

free pardon

beg your pardon

make an apology

ask for pardon

excuse oneself

grant forgiveness

ask for forgiveness

condome

grant respite

’scuse

I didn't catch ya'

toleration

executive clemency

grant amnesty

make excuses

take responsibility

show mercy

patient endurance

show mercy to

papal indulgence

making allowances

Frequency

Hyphenated as

par‧don

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɑːdn̩/

Inherited from Middle English

Cognate with French

Cognate with Frankish

Cognate with Old High German

Cognate with Old English

In summary

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.

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