Pardoned
[pɑ:dənd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Pardon
Editor: Orville
Examples
- Dorothea saw that she had been in the wrong, and Celia pardoned her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This, notwithstanding it was a fundamental error, was pardoned, and excited an expression of loud applause from the gallery auditors. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Let me be pardoned; that is what I ask. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The foreign gentleman begged to be pardoned, but did not altogether understand. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My lord had bought so many men during his life that he was surely to be pardoned for supposing that he had found the price of this one. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I did but make a mistake between my right hand and my left; and he might have pardoned a greater, who took a fool for his counsellor and guide. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Had he drunk a dozen bottles of claret, the old spinster could have pardoned him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But eighteen glasses of gin consumed among boxers in an ignoble pot-house--it was an odious crime and not to be pardoned readily. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Editor: Orville