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pardonable, a.|ˈpɑːdənəb(ə)l|
[a. F. pardonnable (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), f. pardonner: see pardon v. and -able.]
That can be pardoned or forgiven, admitting of pardon; excusable. a. Said of an offence.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark iii. 23 Erroure and ignoraunce are pardonable. 1712Addison Spect. No. 285 ⁋3 Such little Blemishes..we should..impute to a pardonable Inadvertency. 1800Med. Jrnl. III. 361 It is a very pardonable error. 1876Tennyson Harold iii. i, Of all the lies that ever men have lied, Thine is the pardonablest.
b. Of an offender (or his condition). Now rare.
1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. III) 118 The Italian women are more pardonable than the French. 1803J. Porter Thaddeus (1826) III. iii. 68, I dare say your daughter is pardonable. 1846Trench Mirac. vii. (1862) 195 To bring the culprit to a free confession, and so to put him in a pardonable state.
Hence ˈpardonableness; ˈpardonably adv.
a1643Ld. Falkland, etc. Infallibility (1646) 48 This difficulty of using this meanes, (and so pardonablenesse of erring). 1674Boyle Excell. Theol. i. i. 23 The Stoicks absurdly..(but much more pardonably than..Mr. Hobbs) would have men to spring up like mushrooms out of the ground. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. (1894) v. 132 Our thoughts pardonably concentrated themselves on the..question of food. 1892Chamb. Jrnl. 13 Aug. 514/2 A conviction of that neighbour's pardonableness. |