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Definition of Pardonable
1. Adjective. Admitting of being pardoned.
Definition of Pardonable
1. a. Admitting of pardon; not requiring the excution of penalty; venial; excusable; -- applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit.
Definition of Pardonable
1. Adjective. Capable of being pardoned. ¹
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Definition of Pardonable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pardonable
Literary usage of Pardonable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"This contrast has been employed for the classification of sin as pardonable and
unpardonable; such as sins of oversight and rebellion in the Old Testament, ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1888)
"His liberality to his brilliant nephew, Giraldus Cambrensis, whose education he
had superintended, was more pardonable. A few livings and the archdeaconry ..."
3. The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to by Henry Hallam (1849)
"ness, or diminish the numbers, of the Jacobites ; and I must confess, that of
all sophistry that weakens moral obligation, that is the most pardonable which ..."
4. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... is pardonable because they are great and unappreciated men, the genial critic
proceeds,— ... pardonable ..."
5. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1859)
"pardonable AND PUNISHABLE FAULTS OF CHILDREN.* What the children are to do should
not be laid before them as a task, for it then becomes a disgust to them. ..."
6. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... dono under pressure of war, or any other danger, would bo considered ae
pardonable even in the eyes of the god. For the altara were a place of refuge in ..."
7. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"... and assisting in | would he have indulged an egotism, not only ils first
formation ; and the writer who had so natural and so pardonable, but which has ..."
8. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... perhaps, a pardonable zeal in favour of their own functionaries,—have recently
promulgated, and which runs thus :— " Any officer of the Central Office, ..."
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