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What is the noun for pardonee?

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pardon
  1. Forgiveness for an offence.
  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.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “I humbly ask for your pardon for my misdeeds.”
      “Sentenced persons may seek the right to seek a pardon or other commutation of the sentence.”
pardoner
  1. One who pardons.
  2. (historical) In medieval Catholicism, a person licensed to grant papal pardons or indulgences.
  3. Examples:
    1. “There's a prim prioress, a pardoner in shabby green velvet, an enigmatic woman in fur-trimmed crimson.”
      “Basically if you knew that you had sinned you would wait until a pardoner was in your region selling an indulgence and purchase one.”
      “The pardoner is of higher intelligence, and while we condemn him we recognise his ability.”
pardonableness
  1. The quality or state of being pardonable.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Put these two together, and this conceit, of the natural pardonableness of sin, vanishes alone.”
pardonee
  1. One who receives a pardon.
pardoning
pardonings
pardoners
  1. plural of pardoner
  2. Examples:
    1. “It's just the kind of logic employed by mediaeval pardoners flogging pigs' bones as holy relics.”
      “Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.”
pardonees
  1. plural of pardonee
pardons
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