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Pardon

,—in politics, denotes the forgivenss of an individual who, belying all his prior possessions of patriotism and justice, forsakes the People’s cause for a ministerial bribe, and is seated on the right hand of Billy Pitt, whose mercy endureth for ever.

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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Pardon