free pardon

1. 1.

   the formal act of liberating someone

   Synonymsamnestypardon

   Broaderclemency

   law

Questions about free pardon

What does free pardon mean?

free pardon means "the formal act of liberating someone".

What is another word for free pardon?

Close synonyms include amnesty, pardon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is free pardon a common word?

free pardon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.