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pardon verb trans. LME.
[Old French pardoner, perduner (mod. pardonner), from medieval Latin perdonare, from Latin per- (see PAR-1 + donare give.]
Refrain from exacting the due penalty for (an offence etc.); pass over (an offence or offender) without punishment or blame; duly authorize remission of the legal consequences of (a crime or conviction); forgive. LME.
D. Hume Her father would never have pardoned such obstinacy. E. Wilson The royalists..had all been pardoned and set free.
Refrain from exacting (a duty, Debt, penalty, etc.). LME-M17.
Shakespeare Merchant of Venice I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.
Make courteous allowance for, excuse, (a person, fact, or action). E16.
pardon me: I beg your pardon.
E. M. Forster Whether he droned trivialities..or sprang kisses on her..she could pardon him. A. S. Neill Compromise I can pardon, but not gush.

Somerset, Edward Seymour, 1st duke of (sh)




born งใ 1500/06
died Jan. 22, 1552, London, Eng.

English politician.

After his sister, Jane Seymour, married King Henry VIII in 1536, Somerset rose rapidly in royal favour. He commanded the English forces that invaded Scotland and sacked Edinburgh in 1544, and he decisively defeated the French at Boulogne in 1545. After Henry's death (1547), he was named Protector of England during the minority of Edward VI and acted as king in all but name. When the Scots rejected his appeal for a voluntary union with England, he invaded Scotland and won the Battle of Pinkie (1547). He introduced moderate Protestant reforms, but these provoked Catholic uprisings in western England. His land reforms were opposed by landowners and the duke of Northumberland, who had Somerset deposed from the protectorate in 1549. He was imprisoned in 1551 on a flimsy charge of treason and executed the next year.