pardon
Forgiveness for an offense.
(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.
To forgive (a person).
I hope you will not find he has outstepped the truth more than may be pardoned, in consideration of the motive.
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.
I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.
(law) To grant an official pardon for a crime.
Often used when someone does not understand what another person says.)