- (v.t.) A release, by a sovereign or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.
- (v.t.) An official warrant of remission of penalty.
- (v.t.) The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
- (v.t.) The state of being forgiven.
- (v.t.) To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.
- (v.t.) To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses.
- (v.t.) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
- (v.t.) To give leave (of departure) to.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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