pardonableness

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English

Etymology

From pardonable +‎ -ness.

Noun

pardonableness (uncountable)

  1. 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: for Arthur Iohnson, Samuel Macham and Laurence Lisle, published 1615, →OCLC, page 868:
      Saint Iohns vvord is, All ſinne is (ανομία) Tranſgreſsion of the lavv; Saint Pauls vvord is, The vvages of ſinne is death; Put theſe tvvo together, and this conceit of the naturall pardonableneſſe of ſinne, vaniſhes alone.