0 past simple and past participle of pardon --
1 to forgive someone for something they have said or done. This word is often used in polite expressions: --
There are others who answer terror with terror, and who have been inadequately punished and too speedily pardoned.
I shall be pardoned, therefore, for speaking strongly on this matter.
Those of us who have lived with this subject for seventeen years may be pardoned if we hope to hurry a little faster than that.
We must be pardoned for being a little sceptical about that in view of past experience.
The feeling there, of course, is that the person is not guilty and has merely been pardoned.
But we must be pardoned if at times we are a trifle suspicious of their efforts to assist us.
I have always believed that "pardoned" is an unfortunate term.
After he had been in prison for about six months he was released, but he was not pardoned.
