thousand pardons

interjection

A conventionally polite request to be pardoned or excused.

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Meanings

interjection
  1. A conventionally polite request to be pardoned or excused.

    His figure was bent in apologetic protest. "I ask a thousand pardons, sir," he said; "I am really so very absent-minded."

    1900, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age, page 110
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