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Forgiveness   /fərgˈɪvnəs/  /fɔrgˈɪvnəs/   Listen
Forgiveness

noun
1.
Compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive.
2.
The act of excusing a mistake or offense.  Synonym: pardon.






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"Forgiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... thoughtlessly, although they were not properly wicked at heart. They repented their hasty work, even whilst they were falling deeper and deeper into gloom. They put up a prayer of repentance to their Lord, and implored his forgiveness; and because God saw that they were not rotten at the core, he hearkened to their petition, and rescued them out of the claws of Satan. But since they were not worthy to be received into heaven again, the Lord ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various

... saw again a native brave Decking his naked body with the coat Crowned with the hat of some sea-faring man,— Aping the civilization of his stride Till his new prowess fell to comrade's jeers. So with a tiger heart it were to wear A grave forgiveness of this wanton wrong. The primal lust had burst the slender bar, Weak white man's morals. Now ...
— The Rose of Dawn - A Tale of the South Sea • Helen Hay

... no louder, her expression was unchanged; in her glorious eyes gleamed no trace of anything other than benign forgiveness; she remained motionless as before, with her rounded arm and shapely hand extended in a manner that revealed their ...
— The Pirate Woman • Aylward Edward Dingle

... woman, whose eyes glared upon him with an expression rather demoniac than human, while her paralytic hand, shaking with ineffectual effort, waved him off. A broken word escaped her lips here and there, and—"sin"—"forgiveness"—was all that reached the ears of her grandchild, when her head sank back upon the pillow, and she expired without ...
— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms

... forgive me!" he cried, brokenly. "I am a brute—I forgot myself—I must be mad, I think; for Heaven's sake tell me that I have not offended you past forgiveness, Vera!" ...
— Vera Nevill - Poor Wisdom's Chance • Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron


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