Word Meanings - IRREMISSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Refusal of pardon.

Related words: (words related to IRREMISSION)

• 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.
• PARDONABLENESS
  The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin. Bp. Hall.
• PARDONER
  1. One who pardons. Shak. 2. A seller of indulgences. Chaucer.
• PARDONING
  Relating to pardon; having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon; merciful; as, the pardoning power; a pardoning God.
• REFUSAL
  1. The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance. Do they not seek occasion of new quarrels, On my refusal, to distress me more Milton. 2. The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking
• PARDONABLY
  In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably. Dryden.
• 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
• UNPARDONABLE
  Not admitting of pardon or forgiveness; inexcusable.
• IMPARDONABLE
  Unpardonable. South.