Definition of pardon

"pardon" in the noun sense

1. forgiveness, pardon

the act of excusing a mistake or offense

2. pardon, amnesty

a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense

3. amnesty, pardon, free pardon

the formal act of liberating someone

"pardon" in the verb sense

1. excuse, pardon

accept an excuse for

"Please excuse my dirty hands"

2. pardon

grant a pardon to

"Ford pardoned Nixon"

"The Thanksgiving turkey was pardoned by the President"

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

Princeton University "About WordNet®."
WordNet®. Princeton University. 2010.


View WordNet® License

Quotations for pardon

Pardon my words.

No penny no pardon. [ Proverb ]

Pardon all but thyself. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Offenders never pardon. [ Proverb ]

We pardon as long as we love. [ Rochefoucauld ]

To have the power to forgive,
Is empire and prerogative,
And 'tis in crowns a nobler gem,
To grant a pardon than condemn. [ Butler ]

Pardon is the virtue of victory. [ Mazzini ]

But infinite in pardon is my Judge. [ Milton ]

Pardon others often, thyself never. [ Publius Syrus ]

To err is human; to forgive, divine! [ Pope ]

I pardon him, as God shall pardon me. [ William Shakespeare ]

As you from crimes would pardon'd be.
Let your indulgence set me free. [ William Shakespeare ]

Pardon ever follows sincere repentance. [ Spurgeon ]

The heart has always the pardoning power. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

The man who pardons easily courts injury. [ Corneille ]

The very best men stand in need of pardon. [ Proverb ]

Pardon, not wrath, is God's best attribute. [ Bayard Taylor ]

If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas. [ Victor Hugo ]

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely. [ Mme. de Stael ]

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. [ Bailey ]

The word is short, but not so short as sweet. [ William Shakespeare ]

A fault wilfully committed deserves no pardon. [ Proverb ]

He is below himself who is not above an injury. [ Quarles ]

It is common to man to pardon all his own faults.

Hopes of pardon mend not, but encourage criminals. [ Proverb ]

Men that have much business must have much pardon. [ Proverb ]

He that sharply chides is the most ready to pardon. [ Proverb ]

Wilful faults have no excuse, and deserve no pardon. [ Proverb ]

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. [ Bible ]

A wilful fault has no excuse, and deserves no pardon. [ Proverb ]

Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom. [ Aeschines ]

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Ladies will rather pardon want of sense than want of manners. [ Proverb ]

My rigour relents: I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. [ Burke ]

Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned. [ Schiller ]

God pardons like a mother who kisses away the repentant tears of her child. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive our enemies. [ Chapin ]

Pardon is voluntary forgetfulness, while forgetfulness is involuntary pardon. [ Stahl ]

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. [ Saadi ]

Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by transgression? [ Bible ]

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they never pardon, who commit the wrong. [ Dryden ]

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears. [ Bishop Hall ]

Ten Things To Do.

Do good to all.
Speak evil of none.
Hear and know the facts before judging.
Think before speaking.
Hold an angry tongue.
Be kind to the distressed.
Ask pardon for all wrongs.
Be patient toward everybody.
Stop the ears to a tale-bearer.
Disbelieve most of the ill reports concerning friends, neighbors, and people in general.

When by a pardoned murderer blood is spilt, the judge that pardoned hath the greatest guilt. [ Sir J. Denham ]

Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious aild merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. [ Bible ]

Had I not sinned, what had there been for thee to pardon? My fate has given thee the matter for mercy. [ Ovid ]

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness. [ Alice Cary ]

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth. [ St. Anselm ]

Louis XVI knew only how to love, pardon, and die; had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign. [ Tilly ]

There remains a way through the heavens; through the heavens we will attempt to go. High Jupiter, pardon my bold design. [ Ovid, in the name of Daedalus when he escaped from the labyrinth on wings ]

These evils I deserve, yet despair not of His final pardon whose ear is ever open and his eye gracious to readmit the supplicant. [ Milton ]

God pardon them that are the cause thereof! A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion, to pray for them that have done scath to us. [ William Shakespeare ]

What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground? [ Milton ]

The world never forgives our talents, our successes, our friends, nor our pleasures. It only forgives our death. Nay, it does not always pardon that. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression. [ Bacon ]

Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, yet, with my nobler reason, against my fury do I take part; the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance. [ William Shakespeare ]

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so. [ Pope ]

pardon in Scrabble®

The word pardon is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters pardon:

PARDON
(36)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word pardon

PARDON
(36)
PARDON
(33)
PARDON
(30)
PARDON
(30)
PARDON
(30)
PARDON
(30)
PARDON
(30)
PARDON
(27)
PARDON
(27)
PARDON
(24)
PARDON
(24)
PARDON
(22)
PARDON
(22)
PARDON
(22)
PARDON
(20)
PARDON
(20)
PARDON
(20)
PARDON
(20)
PARDON
(18)
PARDON
(18)
PARDON
(18)
PARDON
(18)
PARDON
(18)
PARDON
(18)
PARDON
(17)
PARDON
(13)
PARDON
(13)
PARDON
(13)
PARDON
(13)
PARDON
(12)
PARDON
(12)
PARDON
(11)
PARDON
(11)
PARDON
(11)
PARDON
(11)
PARDON
(10)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In pardon

PARDON
(36)
PARDON
(33)
PARDON
(30)
PARDON
(30)
PARDON
(30)
POND
(30)
APRON
(30)
PROD
(30)
PARDON
(30)
DROP
(30)
PARDON
(30)
DROP
(27)
PARDON
(27)
PARDON
(27)
PROD
(27)
POND
(27)
PORN
(27)
APRON
(24)
ADORN
(24)
PARDON
(24)
PARDON
(24)
APRON
(24)
APRON
(24)
PARDON
(22)
PARDON
(22)
PARDON
(22)
APRON
(21)
POND
(21)
ADORN
(21)
DROP
(21)
DARN
(21)
DROP
(21)
RADON
(21)
APRON
(21)
PORN
(21)
ROAD
(21)
ADORN
(21)
DROP
(21)
RADON
(21)
DROP
(21)
POND
(21)
APRON
(21)
POND
(21)
POND
(21)
PROD
(21)
PROD
(21)
RAND
(21)
RADON
(21)
RADON
(21)
PROD
(21)
PROD
(21)
ADORN
(21)
POND
(20)
PROD
(20)
PARDON
(20)
PARDON
(20)
PARDON
(20)
PARDON
(20)
DROP
(20)
PORN
(18)
POND
(18)
APRON
(18)
PORN
(18)
PORN
(18)
APRON
(18)
PORN
(18)
PAD
(18)
RADON
(18)
PROD
(18)
POD
(18)
PAD
(18)
PAD
(18)
DROP
(18)
ROAD
(18)
PARDON
(18)
PARDON
(18)
PARDON
(18)
PARDON
(18)
RAND
(18)
PARDON
(18)
ADORN
(18)
ADORN
(18)
ADORN
(18)
DARN
(18)
PARDON
(18)
RADON
(18)
POD
(18)
RADON
(18)
POD
(18)
PORN
(18)
PARDON
(17)
APRON
(16)
APRON
(16)
APRON
(16)
APRON
(16)
ADORN
(16)
RADON
(16)
ADORN
(16)
RADON
(16)
DARN
(15)
ROAD
(15)
RAP
(15)
RAP
(15)
RAP
(15)
DARN
(15)
RAND
(15)
RAND
(15)
ROAD
(15)
RAND
(15)
RAND
(15)
DARN
(15)
DARN
(15)
ROAD
(15)
PAN
(15)
ROAN
(15)
PAR
(15)
PAR
(15)
NAP
(15)
ROAD
(15)
PAR
(15)
PAN
(15)
PAN
(15)
NAP
(15)
NAP
(15)
ROAN
(15)
ADORN
(14)
RADON
(14)
DROP
(14)
APRON
(14)
DROP
(14)
ROAD
(14)
DROP
(14)
RAND
(14)
DROP
(14)
ADORN
(14)
RADON
(14)
ADORN
(14)
POND
(14)
APRON
(14)
APRON
(14)
APRON
(14)
APRON
(14)
PORN
(14)
POND
(14)
PROD
(14)
RADON
(14)
PROD
(14)
POND
(14)
POND
(14)
PROD
(14)
PROD
(14)
ADORN
(14)
RADON
(14)
DARN
(14)
PARDON
(13)
PARDON
(13)
PARDON
(13)
POND
(13)
DROP
(13)
PROD
(13)
PARDON
(13)
APRON
(13)
PAD
(12)
NOD
(12)
NOD
(12)
ROAN
(12)
PORN
(12)
PA
(12)
PA
(12)
ROD
(12)
PAD
(12)
ROD
(12)
ROAN
(12)
PAD
(12)
PORN
(12)
PAD
(12)
RAND
(12)
ROAN
(12)
ROAD
(12)
POD
(12)
RADON
(12)
PARDON
(12)
RADON
(12)
PARDON
(12)
POD
(12)
RADON
(12)
PORN
(12)
POD
(12)
RADON
(12)
RADON
(12)
PORN
(12)
PORN
(12)
POD
(12)
ROAN
(12)
NOD
(12)
ROD
(12)
ADORN
(12)
AND
(12)
AND
(12)
DON
(12)

pardon in Words With Friends™

The word pardon is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters pardon:

PARDON
(63)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word pardon

PARDON
(63)
PARDON
(57)
PARDON
(57)
PARDON
(45)
PARDON
(45)
PARDON
(44)
PARDON
(44)
PARDON
(39)
PARDON
(39)
PARDON
(39)
PARDON
(38)
PARDON
(33)
PARDON
(33)
PARDON
(30)
PARDON
(30)
PARDON
(26)
PARDON
(26)
PARDON
(26)
PARDON
(26)
PARDON
(24)
PARDON
(24)
PARDON
(24)
PARDON
(22)
PARDON
(22)
PARDON
(22)
PARDON
(22)
PARDON
(22)
PARDON
(22)
PARDON
(21)
PARDON
(20)
PARDON
(17)
PARDON
(17)
PARDON
(17)
PARDON
(16)
PARDON
(16)
PARDON
(16)
PARDON
(15)
PARDON
(15)
PARDON
(15)
PARDON
(15)
PARDON
(14)
PARDON
(14)
PARDON
(14)
PARDON
(13)
PARDON
(13)
PARDON
(13)
PARDON
(13)
PARDON
(13)
PARDON
(12)
PARDON
(12)
PARDON
(12)
PARDON
(11)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In pardon

PARDON
(63)
PARDON
(57)
PARDON
(57)
POND
(51)
APRON
(51)
PORN
(48)
DROP
(48)
PROD
(48)
PARDON
(45)
PARDON
(45)
PARDON
(44)
PARDON
(44)
POND
(39)
PARDON
(39)
PARDON
(39)
APRON
(39)
PARDON
(39)
PARDON
(38)
DROP
(36)
PORN
(36)
APRON
(36)
PROD
(36)
RADON
(33)
ADORN
(33)
PARDON
(33)
PARDON
(33)
APRON
(33)
APRON
(33)
ADORN
(33)
PARDON
(30)
DARN
(30)
PARDON
(30)
DARN
(30)
RAND
(30)
RADON
(28)
ADORN
(28)
ADORN
(27)
ROAN
(27)
RADON
(27)
ADORN
(27)
APRON
(27)
POND
(27)
RADON
(27)
APRON
(27)
RADON
(27)
POND
(27)
APRON
(27)
POND
(27)
ROAD
(27)
POND
(27)
POND
(26)
APRON
(26)
PARDON
(26)
PARDON
(26)
PARDON
(26)
PARDON
(26)
APRON
(26)
DROP
(24)
PROD
(24)
PROD
(24)
DROP
(24)
PARDON
(24)
PORN
(24)
PROD
(24)
PORN
(24)
PROD
(24)
PARDON
(24)
PARDON
(24)
PORN
(24)
DROP
(24)
DROP
(24)
RAND
(24)
DROP
(24)
PORN
(24)
PORN
(24)
PROD
(24)
PARDON
(22)
PARDON
(22)
PARDON
(22)
RADON
(22)
APRON
(22)
PARDON
(22)
APRON
(22)
PARDON
(22)
POND
(22)
ADORN
(22)
PARDON
(22)
POD
(21)
ROAN
(21)
NAP
(21)
POD
(21)
NAP
(21)
PAD
(21)
PARDON
(21)
RADON
(21)
NAP
(21)
ADORN
(21)
PAN
(21)
ADORN
(21)
ADORN
(21)
POD
(21)
POND
(21)
PAN
(21)
PAN
(21)
PAD
(21)
RADON
(21)
ROAD
(21)
RADON
(21)
PAD
(21)
DROP
(20)
APRON
(20)
PARDON
(20)
PORN
(20)
APRON
(20)
PROD
(20)
POD
(19)
NAP
(19)
PAD
(19)
APRON
(19)
PAN
(19)
PROD
(18)
POND
(18)
RADON
(18)
DARN
(18)
DARN
(18)
ADORN
(18)
RAND
(18)
RAND
(18)
PAR
(18)
RAND
(18)
ADORN
(18)
POND
(18)
PAR
(18)
DARN
(18)
ADORN
(18)
PAR
(18)
POND
(18)
DROP
(18)
RAND
(18)
RAP
(18)
RAP
(18)
RAP
(18)
PORN
(18)
POND
(18)
APRON
(18)
APRON
(18)
RADON
(18)
APRON
(18)
APRON
(18)
DARN
(18)
APRON
(18)
PARDON
(17)
POND
(17)
PARDON
(17)
PARDON
(17)
APRON
(17)
PROD
(16)
PAR
(16)
DROP
(16)
PARDON
(16)
RAP
(16)
ADORN
(16)
DROP
(16)
DROP
(16)
PARDON
(16)
PROD
(16)
DROP
(16)
DROP
(16)
PROD
(16)
PROD
(16)
PROD
(16)
PORN
(16)
RADON
(16)
PORN
(16)
RADON
(16)
RADON
(16)
DARN
(16)
ADORN
(16)
PORN
(16)
DARN
(16)
RAND
(16)
PARDON
(16)
PORN
(16)
PORN
(16)
APRON
(15)
PAN
(15)
ROAD
(15)
PA
(15)
NAP
(15)
ROAD
(15)
ROAN
(15)
PA
(15)
POD
(15)
ROAD
(15)
ROAN
(15)
PAD
(15)
ROAN
(15)
ROAD
(15)
ROAN
(15)
AND
(15)

Words within the letters of pardon

2 letter words in pardon (8 words)

3 letter words in pardon (14 words)

4 letter words in pardon (8 words)

5 letter words in pardon (3 words)

6 letter words in pardon (1 word)

pardon + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence pardon

Words with pardon in them (4 words)

Words that end with pardon (1 word)

Word Growth involving pardon

Shorter words in pardon

do don

on don

ar par

pa par

Longer words containing pardon

pardonable unpardonable

pardonably unpardonably

pardoned unpardoned

pardoner pardoners

pardoning

pardonmonger pardonmongered

pardonmonger pardonmongerer pardonmongerers

pardonmonger pardonmongeries

pardonmonger pardonmongering

pardonmonger pardonmongers

pardonmonger pardonmongery

pardons