Word Meanings - PARDONABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
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- VENIALITY
The quality or state of being venial; venialness. Jer. Taylor. - REMISSIBLE
Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham. - PARDONABLENESS
The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin. Bp. Hall. - VENALITY
The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the venality of an official. Complaints of Roman venality became louder. - VENAL
Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as, venal blood. - JUSTIFIABLE
Capable of being justified, or shown to be just. Just are the ways of God, An justifiable to men. Milton. Syn. -- Defensible; vindicable; warrantable; excusable; exculpable; authorizable. -- Jus"ti*fi`a*ble*ness, n. -- Jus"ti*fi`a*bly, adv. - VENALLY
In a venal manner. - EXCUSABLE
That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action. -- Ex*cus"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ex*cus"a*bly, adv. The excusableness of my dissatisfaction. Boyle. - VENIAL
forgiveness, pardon, grace, favor, kindness; akin to venerari to 1. Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression. So they do nothing, 't is a venial slip. Shak. 2. Allowed; permitted. - PARDONABLE
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. - INEXCUSABLE
Not excusable; not admitting excuse or justification; as, inexcusable folly. Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest; for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same - UNEXCUSABLE
Inexcusable. Hayward. -- Un`ex*cus"a*ble*ness, n. - RAVENALA
A genus of plants related to the banana. Note: Ravenala Madagascariensis, the principal species, is an unbranched tree with immense oarlike leaves growing alternately from two sides of the stem. The sheathing bases of the leafstalks collect and - UNPARDONABLE
Not admitting of pardon or forgiveness; inexcusable. - IMPARDONABLE
Unpardonable. South. - INEXCUSABLENESS
The quality of being inexcusable; enormity forgiveness. South. - AVENALIN
A crystalline globulin, contained in oat kernels, very similar in composition to excelsin, but different in reactions and crystalline form. - JUVENAL
A youth. Shak. - IRREMISSIBLE
Not remissible; unpardonable; as, irremissible crimes. Burke. -- Ir`re*mis"si*ble, n. -- Ir`re*mis"si*bly, adv.