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Forgiving

adjective

Inclined or able to forgive and show mercy. "A forgiving embrace to the naughty child" Antonym: unforgiving.

Providing absolution. Synonyms: absolvitory, exonerative.

Forgive

verb

(past forgave; past part. forgiven; pres. part. forgiving)

Stop blaming or grant forgiveness. "She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday"

Absolve from payment.

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"Forgiving" Quotes from Famous Books

... say that Alice never did any wrong thing. She was, however, so sorry for a fault, she repented so soon, and then did all she could to repair it, that no one could help forgiving her. She had a trick of squinting now and then. Her mother thought that my curls perplexed the bright eyes under them; and, to prevent the evil, drew up all the pretty locks in a bunch, tied them together, and said, "Now, Alice, ...

— The Talkative Wig • Eliza Lee Follen

... friend! I have too much to be forgiven to feel any difficulty in forgiving the cruellest enemy that ever trampled on me: and you I have only to thank! You have no conception of the dreadful hell of my mind, and conscience, and body. You bid me pray. Oh, I do pray inwardly to be able to pray; ...

— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day

... doctrine: it will be admitted that absolution is true in the lips of Christ, because of His Divinity. It will be said He was God, and God speaking on earth is the same thing as God speaking in heaven. No my brethren, it is not the same thing. Christ forgiving on earth is a new truth added to that of God's forgiving in heaven. It is not the same truth. The one is forgiveness by Deity; the other is the declaration of forgiveness by Humanity. He bade the palsied man walk, that they might know that "the Son of Man hath power on earth to ...

— Sermons Preached at Brighton - Third Series • Frederick W. Robertson

... bit his lip and instinctively stepped backward. Added to his ancestral creed of never forgiving such injury, came a rush of memory—the backward-surging picture of his homeless little sweetheart and all that she had endured. Then came the memory of his dead mother's teaching—teaching she had learned from her own mother, and she in turn from ...

— The Moccasin Maker • E. Pauline Johnson

... Mr. Conway. We quite admired you both. There," she said laughing at Ralph's confusion, "you need not be afraid about my not forgiving you for the remark. Everyone knows that Aunt Tabitha and we girls never get on very well together; and she does make herself dreadfully ridiculous, and I think it was too bad of Captain O'Connor putting ...

— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty

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