Pardon vs Immune - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between pardon and immune

is that pardon is pardon while immune is (epidemiology) a person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease.

As an adjective immune is

exempt; not subject to.

As a verb immune is

to make immune.

pardon

English

Noun

(en noun)

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;

(legal) 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

Verb

(en verb)

To forgive.

* 1599 : (William Shakespeare),

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.

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To refrain from exacting as a penalty.

* Shakespeare

I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.

(legal) To grant an official pardon for a crime; unguilt.

* 1900', , ' (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

Interjection

Pardon? , What did you say?, Can you say that again?

immune

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Exempt; not subject to.

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Protected by inoculation, or due to innate resistance to pathogens.

(by extension) Not vulnerable.

(medicine) Of or pertaining to the immune system.

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Antonyms

* susceptible * vulnerable

Derived terms

* autoimmune

Noun

(en noun)

(epidemiology) A person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease

* {{quote-book, 1965, , Bacterial and Mycotic Infections of Man, editors=Rene J. Dubos & James G. Hirsch citation

, passage=Susceptibles effectively exposed to cases become cases in the next time period; cases recovering from the infection accumulate as immunes .}}

Coordinate terms

* infective * susceptible

Verb

(immun)

To make immune.

* (Thomas Hardy)

In the seventies those who met me did not know / Of the vision / That immuned me from the chillings of mis-prision

* 1905 , American Veterinary Medical Association, Journal (volume 29, page 42)

The utilization of such milk will, however, necessitate an adaptable milk preservation method, through which the immuning agents will not be destroyed or diminished.

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