Forgive vs. Pardon — What's the Difference?

Stop feeling angry or resentful towards (someone) for an offence, flaw, or mistake

A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be relieved of some or all of the legal consequences resulting from a criminal conviction. A pardon may be granted before or after conviction for the crime, depending on the laws of the jurisdiction.Pardons can be granted in many countries when individuals are deemed to have demonstrated that they have "paid their debt to society", or are otherwise considered to be deserving of them.

To give up resentment against or stop wanting to punish (someone) for an offense or fault; pardon.

The action of forgiving or being forgiven for an error or offence

To relent in being angry or in wishing to exact punishment for (an offense or fault).

Forgive or excuse (a person, error, or offence)

To absolve from payment of (a debt, for example).

A request to a speaker to repeat something because one did not hear or understand it

To grant forgiveness.

To release (a person) from punishment or disfavor for wrongdoing or a fault

(transitive) To pardon; to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment, retribution, or compensation.

To allow (an offense or fault) to pass without punishment or disfavor.

(intransitive) To accord forgiveness.

To make courteous allowance for; excuse

To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.

The act of pardoning.

To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; - said in reference to the act forgiven.

Exemption of a convicted person from the penalties of an offense or crime by the power of the executor of the laws.

To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; - said of the person offending.

An official document or warrant declaring such an exemption.

Stop blaming or grant forgiveness;

Allowance or forgiveness for an offense or a discourtesy

Absolve from payment;

Roman Catholic Church An indulgence.

Forgiveness for an offence.

(legal) 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.

(transitive) To forgive (a person).

(transitive) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.

To grant an official pardon for a crime.

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

The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.

An official warrant of remission of penalty.

The state of being forgiven.

A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amnesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.

To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; - applied to the offender.

To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; - applied to offenses.

To refrain from exacting as a penalty.

To give leave (of departure) to.

The act of excusing a mistake or offense

A warrant granting release from punishment for an offense

The formal act of liberating someone

Accept an excuse for;

Grant a pardon to;