Word Meanings - PARDONABLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably. Dryden.
Related words: (words related to PARDONABLY)
- ADMITTER
One who admits. - PARDON
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. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission. - ADMITTANCE
The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its - ADMITTABLE
Admissible. Sir T. Browne. - ADMITTED; ADMITTEDLY
Received as true or valid; acknowledged. -- Ad*mit"ted*ly adv. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - PARDONABLENESS
The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin. Bp. Hall. - ADMITTATUR
The certificate of admission given in some American colleges. - PARDONER
1. One who pardons. Shak. 2. A seller of indulgences. Chaucer. - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - PARDONING
Relating to pardon; having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon; merciful; as, the pardoning power; a pardoning God. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - PARDONABLY
In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably. Dryden. - MANNERCHOR
A German men's chorus or singing club. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - 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. - PARDON; REMISSION
-- Forgiveness, Pardon. Forgiveness is Anglo-Saxon, and pardon Norman French, both implying a giving back. The word pardon, being early used in our Bible, has, in religious matters, the same sense as forgiveness; but in the language of common life - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - UNPARDONABLE
Not admitting of pardon or forgiveness; inexcusable. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - READMITTANCE
Allowance to enter again; a second admission. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - INEXCUSABLY
With a degree of guilt or folly beyond excuse or justification. Inexcusably obstinate and perverse. Jortin. - IMPARDONABLE
Unpardonable. South. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.