Pardon

The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.

An official warrant of remission of penalty.

The state of being forgiven.

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.

To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.

To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses.

To refrain from exacting as a penalty.

To give leave (of departure) to.

a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense