Word Meanings - PARDONABLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to PARDONABLY)

• 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.