Forgive
[fə'gɪv] or [fɚ'ɡɪv]
Definition
(verb.) stop blaming or grant forgiveness; 'I forgave him his infidelity'; 'She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday'.
(verb.) absolve from payment; 'I forgive you your debt'.
Editor: Nat--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.
(v. t.) To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven.
(v. t.) To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending.
Checker: Mara
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Pardon (especially for a small offence), absolve, excuse, acquit.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PARDON]
Editor: Nancy
Definition
v.t. to pardon: to overlook an offence or debt: (Spens.) to give up.—v.i. to be merciful or forgiving.—adj. Forgiv′able capable of being forgiven.—n. Forgive′ness pardon: remission: disposition to pardon.—adj. Forgiv′ing ready to pardon: merciful: compassionate.
Checker: Prudence
Examples
- I admit that I do press it, and I must beg you to forgive me if I do so, very earnestly. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- IF YOU WOULD FORGIVE YOUR ENEMY, says the Malay proverb, FIRST INFLICT A HURT ON HIM; and Lily was experiencing the truth of the apothegm. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But you know I am but an uncouth Milton manufacturer; will you forgive me? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- My dear, said Mrs. Shelby, recollecting herself, forgive me. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I'll never forgive you if you do, for I want them all to know my friend. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But I have asked him to forgive me since,' cried Bella; 'and I would ask him to forgive me now again, upon my knees, if it would spare him! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If Rose had--I cannot utter that word now--if this illness had terminated differently, how could you ever have forgiven yourself! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- But Amelia has never forgiven that Smith to this day, though he is now a peaceful apothecary near Leicester Square. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In another world, if I am forgiven, I may wake a child and come to you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Besides (she angrily told her looking-glass), she didn't want to be forgiven. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It is certainly odd, when she had forgiven you, and had forgiven your wife, and was going to see ye on purpose to make friends. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The witch shall be taken out of the land, and the wickedness thereof shall be forgiven. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But I forgave her long ago; and I forgive him now. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- So he forgave young Bullock and consented that the marriage should take place. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She wronged me again and again, and again and again I forgave her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She forgave me; and why should she not have forgiven you? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Should you think all that pleasant enough if I forgave you? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She has offended somebody: who never forgives--whose rage redoubled when he saw you. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Since we do not have God here any more, neither His Son nor the Holy Ghost, who forgives? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Woman forgives but too readily, Captain. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- With my diary, the poor labourer (who forgives Mr. Blake for insulting her) is worthy of her hire. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- As he extended his hand with a magnificently forgiving air, and as I was broken by illness and unfit to quarrel, I took it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But you'll say a word to her for me, and ask her to be as forgiving as you two are? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Say everything as is kind and forgiving on your part? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As soon as he had gone, she wished she had been more forgiving, and when Meg and her mother went upstairs, she felt lonely and longed for Teddy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Revenge is sometimes sweet, even to the most forgiving lady, when the manner of it is not too desperate. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- If not a dominant and commanding race, they are, at least, an affectionate, magnanimous, and forgiving one. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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