PARDON, n. ([page 262]).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is acquittal? How does it differ from pardon as regards the person acquitted or pardoned? 2. Is an innocent person ever pardoned? 3. What is oblivion? amnesty? absolution?
EXAMPLES.
For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter
Of the Eternal's language;—on earth it is called ——.
——, not wrath, is God's best attribute.
—— to the injured does belong,
But they ne'er —— who have done the wrong.