Pardon vs. Commutation
Pardonnoun
Forgiveness for an offence.
Pardonnoun
(legal) An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed.
Pardonverb
(transitive) To forgive.
Pardonverb
(transitive) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
Pardonverb
To grant an official pardon for a crime; unguilt.
Pardoninterjection
Often used when someone does not understand what another person says.
Pardonnoun
The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
Pardonnoun
An official warrant of remission of penalty.
Pardonnoun
The state of being forgiven.
Pardonnoun
A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amnesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.
Pardonverb
To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; - applied to the offender.
Pardonverb
To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; - applied to offenses.
Pardonverb
To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
Pardonverb
To give leave (of departure) to.
Pardonnoun
the act of excusing a mistake or offense
Pardonnoun
a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
Pardonnoun
the formal act of liberating someone
Pardonverb
accept an excuse for;
Pardonverb
grant a pardon to;
Pardonnoun
the action of forgiving or being forgiven for an error or offence
Pardonnoun
a cancellation of the legal consequences of an offence or conviction
Pardonnoun
an indulgence, as widely sold in medieval Europe.
Pardonverb
forgive or excuse (a person, error, or offence)
Pardonverb
release (an offender) from the legal consequences of an offence or conviction, and often implicitly from blame
Pardonverb
used to indicate that someone is justified in doing or thinking a particular thing given the circumstances
Pardoninterjection
a request to a speaker to repeat something because one did not hear or understand it
Pardon
A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be relieved of some or all of the legal consequences resulting from a criminal conviction. A pardon may be granted before or after conviction for the crime, depending on the laws of the jurisdiction.Pardons can be granted in many countries when individuals are deemed to have demonstrated that they have , or are otherwise considered to be deserving of them.
Commutationnoun
(obsolete) A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.
Commutationnoun
(obsolete) The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
Commutationnoun
Substitution of one thing for another; interchange.
Commutationnoun
Specifically, the substitution of one kind of payment for another, especially a switch to monetary payment from obligations of labour.
Commutationnoun
(legal) The change to a lesser penalty or punishment by the State
Commutationnoun
(linguistics) Substitution, as a means of discriminating between phonemes.
Commutationnoun
(electronics) The reversal of an electric current.
Commutationnoun
(US) The process or habit of journeying to and from work on a regular basis; commuting.
Commutationnoun
The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
Commutationnoun
The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment.
Commutationnoun
A substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations.
Commutationnoun
regular travel from a place of residence to a place where one's daily work is performed; commuting. Most often, such travel is performed between a suburb and a nearby city.
Commutationnoun
the travel of a commuter
Commutationnoun
a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one
Commutationnoun
(law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law
Commutationnoun
the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
Commutationnoun
the action or process of commuting a judicial sentence
Commutationnoun
the conversion of a legal obligation or entitlement into another form, e.g. the replacement of an annuity or series of payments by a single payment
Commutationnoun
the process of commutating an electric current.
Commutationnoun
the property of having a commutative relation.
