pardon
noun
kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience.
pardonably
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a word derived from
pardon.
Example Sentences
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The correspondents might pardonably have been excused for failing to recognize conduct so unnatural on the part of the President.
From Time Magazine Archive
Puffed to the limit and beloved by "Barnum" Gest, it has pardonably fallen just a trifle short of expectations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Canadians are pardonably proud that they paid for their own war without U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is not one boast in the book, and there might pardonably be many.
From Time Magazine Archive
Josephine, and others, well acquainted with his habits, very pardonably took some advantage of this propensity.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
