PARDONABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pardonable mean? 

• PARDONABLE (adjective)
  The adjective PARDONABLE has 1 sense:

1. admitting of being pardoned

  Familiarity information: PARDONABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARDONABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Admitting of being pardoned

Similar:

excusable; forgivable; venial (easily excused or forgiven)

expiable (capable of being atoned for)

minor; venial (warranting only temporal punishment)

Antonym:

unpardonable (not admitting of pardon)

 Context examples 

I only know that I never yet heard her admit any instance of a second attachment's being pardonable.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

As she turned the pages rich in dainty devices with very pardonable pride, her eye fell upon one verse that made her stop and think.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The Admiral hated marriage, and thought it never pardonable in a young man of independent fortune.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He thought it a very degrading alliance; and Lady Russell, though with more tempered and pardonable pride, received it as a most unfortunate one.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And from these circumstances, he replied (his quick eye fixed on hers), you infer perhaps the probability of some negligence—some—(involuntarily she shook her head)—or it may be—of something still less pardonable.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"Play something, Amy. Let them hear how much you have improved," said Laurie, with pardonable pride in his promising pupil.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He called it a bad thing, done in the worst manner, and at the worst time; and though Julia was yet as more pardonable than Maria as folly than vice, he could not but regard the step she had taken as opening the worst probabilities of a conclusion hereafter like her sister's.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Next day Amy was rather late at school, but could not resist the temptation of displaying, with pardonable pride, a moist brown-paper parcel, before she consigned it to the inmost recesses of her desk.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)