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pardon; forgiveness; understanding; forbearance
Formal/honorific expression asking for forgiveness or understanding.
Common patterns
ご (honorific prefix) + 容赦 (pardon, leniency).
- ご容赦ください: please bear with us
- ご容赦願います: we ask your understanding
- ご容赦のほど: adds a further layer of formality
- 何卒ご容赦〜: the most humble version, standard in written apologies
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Very formal, and directed outward from an organization to its customers or audience. Learners will meet it far more often reading than speaking — in service announcements, business correspondence, official apologies, and posted notices. It is not used between friends.
What IT actually asks for
Despite the "forgiveness" gloss, ご容赦ください rarely follows a real wrongdoing. It asks the reader to accept an inconvenience in advance — a delay, a shortage, a limit on service — and is closer to English "please bear with us" or "we appreciate your understanding."