pardonableness en · NOUN
Etymology
From pardonable + -ness.
Meanings
-
(uncountable) The quality or state of being pardonable.
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.
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: