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Word Meanings - PARDONABLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably. Dryden.

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  • 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.

 

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