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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Pard-, Perdoun, -on(e, v. Also: -own, -onne. [Late ME. and e.m.E. pardon (c 1430), -one (1450), -onne (Caxton), OF. pardoner, perduner (11th c. in Hatz.-Darm.). Cf. Pardoun(e,n.]
1. tr. To pardon or forgive (a person, act or thing; also, a person for an act, etc.). Also absol.Const. obj. or double obj.To pardoun (someone's) life, to remit a sentence of death (passed on a person).(1) c1475 Wall. vi. 135.
Pardown me than, for I wend ȝe had beyne Ane inbasset 1513 Doug. i. Prol. 473.
Virgill … Pardon thy scolar 1536 Lynd. Answ. Flyting 5.
Pardone me thocht I be impacient 1543 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 190.
We beleif your lordschip wilbe so gracius to pardone ws 1570 Leslie 177.
He … pardonit the uderis inferiors suddartis a1578 Pitsc. I. 92/33.
That he sould be saiflie pardonit(b) 1549 Compl. 119/5.
I pray thé to perdone me 1568–9 Anderson Collect. Mary IV. ii. 191.
Gif it pleasit hir Majestie to perdonne the Erle of Mortoun [etc.] 1569 Cal. Sc. P. II. 722.
That you have also perdonid me many tymes(2) a1500 Colk. Sow Prol. 50.
Pardoun the fulich face of this mad metir 1522 Douglas Corr. 84.
Quhom 1 beseyk to perdone this my sa haymlye wrytinge 1553–4 Corr. M. Lorraine 382. 1596 Lett. & St. P. Jas. VI .
Bisiking your hines to pardon my baldnes 1691 Annandale Corr. 49.
Pardone the blots of this hastied line(3) 1637 Dumbarton B. Rec. 53.
Pardoun and forgive us all our sins(4) 1533 Bell. Livy I. 190/8.
Prayit thame … to perdoun his life 1598 Crim. Trials II. 52.
We haif pardonit and pardonis hir lyffeabsol. 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 50.
Gif the Kingis actioun pardonit [etc.]
2. To excuse (another) from (of, fra) doing something.c1515 Asl. MS. I. 326/4.
Beseking the redaris to pardon me thairof 1525 Aberd. B. Rec. I. xli.
That Sir Johne Cuming be pardonit fra matingis one feriall dayis
3. passive To be permitted, given leave (to do some thing).1533 Boece vii. i. 220 b.
In this cais … I suld be perdonit to follow oure auld cronikillis 1558-66 Knox I. 388.
Bot princeis must be pardonit to speik quhat thay pleise
