(v. t.) The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
(v. t.) An official warrant of remission of penalty.
(v. t.) The state of being forgiven.
(v. t.) A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.
(v. t.) To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.
(v. t.) To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses.
(v. t.) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
(v. t.) To give leave (of departure) to.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
(2) 'Devastated' Peter Greste calls on Egypt's president to pardon trio Read more “It’s ironic that the conviction was for tarnishing Egypt’s reputation when ... this [case] is what’s tarnished Egypt’s image,” Clooney told BBC News.
(3) But Blair's address - "history will forgive us" - was a dubious exercise in group therapy: the cheers smacked of pathetic gratitude, as he piously pardoned the legislators, as well as himself, for the catastrophe of Iraq.
(4) A request for a pardon would require an admission of guilt, which the women have said they will not give.
(5) I appeal to the king of Saudi Arabia to exercise his power to halt the public flogging by pardoning Mr Badawi, and to urgently review this type of extraordinarily harsh penalty.” Badawi’s case was one of several recent prosecutions of activists.
(6) "It is genuinely difficult to understand the motives of the pardons campaign," wrote Cathryn Corns and John Hughes-Wilson in their book, Blindfold and Alone , arguing that there should only be pardons for those who were suffering from shell shock when they left their posts, while other soldiers who "were demonstrably guilty" of desertion "deserved the full rigour of the law by the standards of their time".
(7) He looks heavenward in prayer: "Pardon, Richard; they know not what they do."
(8) He then tweeted a reference to reports, met with horror among Democrats , that White House advisers were exploring the possibility of presidential pardons.
(9) On Thursday, the Russian office of Interpol requested an international search for Mikhail Khodorkovsky , a former oligarch and Putin critic who fled to Switzerland after he was released from prison on a presidential pardon in 2013.
(10) In one speech he brought the house down when he introduced his party’s Armenian candidate, Garo Paylan, as “pardon my French”.
(11) • US: Offshore clients include Denise Rich, ex-wife of notorious oil trader Marc Rich, who was controversially pardoned by President Clinton on tax evasion charges.
(12) The board of pardons and parole had received a letter on behalf of Pope Francis urging them not to allow Gissendaner’s execution, the first since the pope’s address to the US Congress last week in which he called on the United States to abolish the death penalty.
(13) While all agree the US President has the complete power to pardon,” Trump wrote , “why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us.FAKE NEWS.” He added: Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) So many people are asking why isn't the A.G. or Special Council looking at the many Hillary Clinton or Comey crimes.
(14) This year, we've had the anti-gay riot in the Kenyan town of Mtwapa, the arrest and subsequent pardoning of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga in Malawi and, of course, the " gay executions " bill in Uganda.
(15) Cameron: Nothing, that's the whole point … Rupert Murdoch: Pardon me for interrupting, sport, but I've just instructed my half-witted son that he is allowed to tell the truth to Leveson, after all.
(16) On 20 November Sannikov had to sign an application to Lukashenko for an official pardon.
(17) On Tuesday a federal judge in Austin refused Tamayo's request for a restraining order to stop governor Rick Perry and the Texas board of pardons and paroles from considering Tamayo's clemency petition until the procedure is "adequate and fair".
(18) "The sale of absolutions was the source of large fortunes to the priests ... God's pardon for crimes already committed, or about to be committed, was advertised according to a graduated tariff.
(19) But while Castro, who officially took over from his brother as president in 2008, announced pardons for nearly 3,000 prisoners, those hoping for a loosening of travel rules were disappointed.
(20) Glencore was founded by Marc Rich, the controversial oil trader who was accused of tax evasion by American authorities but was pardoned by President Clinton on his last day in office.
Remit
Definition:
(v. t.) To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
(v. t.) To restore.
(v. t.) To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.
(v. t.) To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.
(v. t.) To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
(v. t.) To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
(v. t.) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.
(v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
(v. i.) To send money, as in payment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mithramycin should be considered in the early treatment not only of hypercalcaemia but also of severe hypercalciuria, if these complications do not rapidly remit during the first course of conventional myeloma therapy, with or without steroids.
(2) We measured CSF immunoreactive myelin basic protein (MBP), a marker of acute myelin damage, and sIL-2R levels in the CSF from 11 patients with active relapsing remitting (RR) MS, five with stable RR MS, eight with chronic progressive (CP) MS, five with other neurologic diseases, and three normal controls.
(3) Its remit was to produce a report on disinfection in endoscopy.
(4) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
(5) Anxiety disorders tend to be remitting and relapsing rather than chronic.
(6) She said the remit of the inquiry – established under the 2005 Inquiries Act – is due to be published by July, following input from interested parties including those who were spied upon.
(7) Each patient had a similar clinical course characterized by hypoglycemia that remitted during hospitalization and recurred after discharge.
(8) This deficit tends to remit for manics and schizoaffectives, but not for schizophrenics.
(9) Ten (71%) of the 14 patients in the group that received both drugs completely remitted (change in Hamilton Depression Rating Scale score of greater than 75%, and final score of less than 7) within 4 weeks, while few patients treated with desipramine alone met these criteria within 4 weeks.
(10) We performed 15 dynamic gadolinium-DTPA (Gd-DTPA)-enhanced MRI studies in 8 patients with relapsing and remitting multiple sclerosis; 7 were follow-up studies.
(11) Because it ought to be crystal clear what the BBC has agreed to do as part of its public service remit.
(12) Thus, acute pancreatitis may fall to remit because of proximal pancreatic duct obstruction, for which pancreatoduodenectomy is a reasonable and effective treatment.
(13) Therefore, the cost was high by prolonged course of therapy to increase slightly remission rate, although it could remit a few more cases.
(14) First, Channel 4 , a commercial network with a public service remit, challenged the BBC's second child as the place where edgier material – and younger audiences – went.
(15) Commercial radio executives have criticised BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 for failing to fulfill their public service remit – and suggested the two stations be switched to digital-only in a bid to boost digital take-up.
(16) ITN scrapped its news channel in 2005 but the BBC has a different remit and viewers look to it at time of national events such as a royal death or other major news stories.
(17) The pathogenesis of the relapsing and remitting paraplegia and its relationship with pregnancy is probably multi-factorial.
(18) One has to question how this fits with its core inflation-fighting remit?
(19) Hacked Off, which campaigns on behalf of victims of press intrusion for tighter press regulation, said this would help the government smooth out the wrinkles in the relevant clause added to the crime and courts bill, which attempts to define which publishers should be in or outside the regulator's remit.
(20) If the Parades Commission considers that the loyalist event falls within its remit, it could issue a determination that would limit its route, which currently passes the nationalist Short Strand.