Pardon

1. The state of being forgiven.
2. To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
3. An official warrant of remission of penalty.
4. The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
5. To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.
6. To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses.
7. 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.
8. To give leave (of departure) to.