Pardonnoun
Forgiveness for an offence.
Commutationnoun
(obsolete) A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.
Pardonnoun
(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.
Commutationnoun
(obsolete) The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
Pardonverb
(transitive) To forgive.
Commutationnoun
Substitution of one thing for another; interchange.
Pardonverb
(transitive) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
Commutationnoun
Specifically, the substitution of one kind of payment for another, especially a switch to monetary payment from obligations of labour.
Pardonverb
To grant an official pardon for a crime; unguilt.
Commutationnoun
(legal) The change to a lesser penalty or punishment by the State
Pardoninterjection
Often used when someone does not understand what another person says.
‘Pardon?, What did you say?, Can you say that again?’;
Commutationnoun
(linguistics) Substitution, as a means of discriminating between phonemes.
Pardonnoun
The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
‘Pardon, my lord, for me and for my tidings.’; ‘But infinite in pardon was my judge.’;
Commutationnoun
(electronics) The reversal of an electric current.
Pardonnoun
An official warrant of remission of penalty.
‘Sign me a present pardon for my brother.’;
Commutationnoun
(US) The process or habit of journeying to and from work on a regular basis; commuting.
Pardonnoun
The state of being forgiven.
Commutationnoun
A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.
‘So great is the commutation that the soul then hated only that which now only it loves.’;
Pardonnoun
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.
Commutationnoun
The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
‘The use of money is . . . that of saving the commutation of more bulky commodities.’;
Pardonverb
To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; - applied to the offender.
‘In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant.’; ‘I pray you, pardon me; pray heartily, pardon me.’;
Commutationnoun
The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment.
‘Suits are allowable in the spiritual courts for money agreed to be given as a commutation for penance.’;
Pardonverb
To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; - applied to offenses.
‘I pray thee, pardon my sin.’; ‘Apollo, pardonMy great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle!’;
Commutationnoun
A substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations.
Pardonverb
To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
‘I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.’;
Commutationnoun
regular travel from a place of residence to a place where one's daily work is performed; commuting. Most often, such travel is performed between a suburb and a nearby city.
Pardonverb
To give leave (of departure) to.
‘Even now about it! I will pardon you.’;
Commutationnoun
the travel of a commuter
Pardonnoun
the act of excusing a mistake or offense
Commutationnoun
a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one
Pardonnoun
a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
Commutationnoun
(law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law
Pardonnoun
the formal act of liberating someone
Commutationnoun
the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
‘he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help’;
Pardonverb
accept an excuse for;
‘Please excuse my dirty hands’;
Commutationnoun
the action or process of commuting a judicial sentence
‘a commutation of her sentence’;
Pardonverb
grant a pardon to;
‘Ford pardoned Nixon’; ‘The Thanksgiving turkey was pardoned by the President’;
Commutationnoun
the conversion of a legal obligation or entitlement into another form, e.g. the replacement of an annuity or series of payments by a single payment
‘making a one-off lump sum in commutation of your pension rights’; ‘the commutation of dues into money rents’;
Pardonnoun
the action of forgiving or being forgiven for an error or offence
‘he obtained pardon for his sins’;
Commutationnoun
the process of commutating an electric current.
Pardonnoun
a cancellation of the legal consequences of an offence or conviction
‘he offered a full pardon to five convicted men’;
Commutationnoun
the property of having a commutative relation.
Pardonnoun
an indulgence, as widely sold in medieval Europe.
Pardonverb
forgive or excuse (a person, error, or offence)
‘I know Catherine will pardon me’;
Pardonverb
release (an offender) from the legal consequences of an offence or conviction, and often implicitly from blame
‘he was pardoned for his treason’;
Pardonverb
used to indicate that someone is justified in doing or thinking a particular thing given the circumstances
‘one can be pardoned the suspicion that some of his errors were deliberate’;
Pardoninterjection
a request to a speaker to repeat something because one did not hear or understand it
‘‘Pardon?’ I said, cupping a hand to my ear’;
Pardon
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 , or are otherwise considered to be deserving of them.
‘paid their debt to society’;
