pardonableness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pardonable + -ness.
Noun
[edit]pardonableness (uncountable)
- The quality or state of being pardonable.
- 1614, Jos[eph] Hall, “No Peace with Rome. […]. Section 13. Concerning the Distinction of Veniall and Mortall Sinnes..”, in A Recollection of Such Treatises as Haue Bene heretofore Seuerally Published and are Nowe Reuised, Corrected, Augmented. […], London: […] [Humfrey Lownes] for Arthur Iohnson, Samuel Macham and Laurence Lisle, published 1615, →OCLC, page 868: