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As nouns the difference between pardon and wee

is that pardon is pardon while wee is .

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.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned .}}
  • 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?

    wee

    English

    (wikipedia wee)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (15c).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (Scotland, Northern Ireland, North England, NZ) Small, little.
  • * 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 73:
    • I had not seen a wee' boy do it like that before. He was ' weer than me and his swimming was just like splashing about.
    You looked a little cold so I lit a wee fire.

    References

    * Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)

    Etymology 2

    Unknown

    Noun

    (-)
  • (colloquial, uncountable) urine
  • (colloquial) An act of urination.
    • to have a wee
    Synonyms
    * wee wee * See also * See also

    Verb

  • (colloquial) To urinate.
    • Synonyms
    * See also

    Anagrams

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