different between pardon vs charity

English

Etymology

From Middle English pardonen, from Old French pardoner (modern French pardonner), from Vulgar Latin *perdonare, from per- + donare, a loan-translation of a Germanic word represented by Frankish *firgeban (“to forgive, give up completely”), from *fir- + *geban. Akin to Old High German fargeban, firgeban (“to forgive”), Old English for?iefan (“to forgive”). More at forgive.

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?p??.d?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??d?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p??.dn?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?n

Noun

pardon (countable and uncountable, plural pardons)

1. Forgiveness for an offence.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa

     […] a step, that could not be taken with the least hope of ever obtaining pardon from or reconciliation with any of my friends; […]

2. (law) 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.
   • 1974: President Gerald Ford, Proclamation 4311

     I […] have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States […]

Derived terms

• I beg your pardon

Translations

Verb

pardon (third-person singular simple present pardons, present participle pardoning, simple past and past participle pardoned)

1. (transitive) To forgive (a person).
   • 1599: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

     O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

   • 1815: Jane Austen, Emma

     I hope you will not find he has outstepped the truth more than may be pardoned, in consideration of the motive.
2. (transitive) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
3. (transitive, law) To grant an official pardon for a crime.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.

Derived terms

• pardonable
• pardoner
• pardon me
• pardon my French
• unpardonable

Translations

Interjection

pardon?

1. Often used when someone does not understand what another person says.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:say again

Translations

Anagrams

• Padron

Czech

Alternative forms

• pardón

Interjection

pardon

1. sorry, I'm sorry, I beg your pardon, I apologize

Synonyms

• omlouvám se, promi?te, promi?, sorry, sorá?

Further reading

• pardon in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• pardon in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French pardon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?r?d?n/
• Hyphenation: par?don
• Rhymes: -?n

Interjection

pardon

1. I'm sorry, pardon

Noun

pardon n (plural pardons)

1. (law) pardon, clemency

French

Etymology

Deverbal of pardonner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?.d??/

Interjection

pardon

1. excuse me
2. sorry

Descendants

• ? Bulgarian: ??????? (pardón, “colloquial”)
• ? Czech: pardon (“colloquial”)
• ? English: pardon
• ? Russian: ??????? (pardón, “colloquial”)

Noun

pardon m (plural pardons)

1. pardon, forgiveness

Derived terms

• Grand Pardon

Further reading

• “pardon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• pondra

Hungarian

Etymology

From French pardon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /par?don/
• Rhymes: -on

Interjection

pardon

1. pardon!, pardon me!, excuse me!, I beg your pardon!, sorry!

Further reading

• pardon in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Romanian

Etymology

From French pardon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /par?don/

Interjection

pardon

1. pardon!, pardon me!, excuse me!, I beg your pardon!, sorry!

Noun

pardon n (uncountable)

1. (dated) pardon, pardoning, forgiveness, excuse

Synonyms

• iertare, scuz?

See also

• poftim

Swedish

Noun

pardon c

1. mercy

Synonyms

• nåd

Anagrams

• pandor

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French pardon.

Interjection

pardon

1. pardon!, pardon me!, excuse me!, I beg your pardon!, sorry!

English

Etymology

From Middle English charite, from Old French charité, cherte, chariteit, cariteit, from Latin c?rit?s.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?æ??ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t????ti/

Noun

charity (countable and uncountable, plural charities)

1. (countable) An organization, the objective of which is to carry out a charitable purpose.
2. (countable) The goods or money given to those in need.
3. (uncountable) Benevolence to others less fortunate than ourselves; the providing of goods or money to those in need.
4. In general, an attitude of kindness and understanding towards others, now especially suggesting generosity.
   • July 20, 1677, John Mitchell Mason, letter to a friend

     Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou witl judge others with the judgment of charity.

5. (archaic, Christianity) Christian love; representing God's love of man, man's love of God, or man's love of his fellow-men.

   Synonym: agape

   • Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil.

Synonyms

• (organization): charitable organization

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• "charity" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 54.

Anagrams

• chytrai