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to pardoned
noun
Forgiveness for an offence.
synonyms
Exact(2)
Technically, the term applied only to pardoned convicts; it was generally used as well, however, for "expirees"—convicts whose full terms had been served.
Andrew Johnson's restoration of abandoned lands to pardoned Southerners and by the adamant refusal of Congress to consider any form of land redistribution, the bureau was forced to oversee sharecropping arrangements that inevitably became oppressive.
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It teaches us to pardon one another.
"We can't wait to pardon these turkeys.
He is being lobbied hard to pardon Mr Berlusconi.
He then announced his decision to pardon Mr Khodorkovsky.
We never lobbied the Panamanian Government to pardon anyone".
Human Rights Watch urged the Afghan president to pardon Mr. Kambakhsh.
And, of course, he's got to pardon Scooter".
She was pardoned and thus learned the amount of love required to pardon others.
Mr Obama had chosen to pardon both the turkeys to save them from becoming dinner.
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