pardon
noun
kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience.
unpardoning
-
a word derived from
pardon.
Example Sentences
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For the first time she had been brought face to face with sin and falsehood, and hers was the unpardoning white condemnation of an angel to whom sin is unknown and falsehood impossible.
From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler
They could trifle with the curse or unpardoning prophecy of a witch, but not with the pardon of a priest.
From The Victorian Age in Literature by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Observant of the prince's high behest, His menial train attend the stranger-guest; Whom Pallas with unpardoning fury fired, By lordly pride and keen reproach inspired.
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
This mediocrity has the furious, unpardoning hatred of l'amour propre offensé.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
There would be poverty again, or something closely akin to it; there would be the mother's unpardoning disapprobation of her child's ill-favored lot.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
