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Not insist on payment of, as a debt
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forgive
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Wikipedia
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"Forgive" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Rebecca Lynn Howard . It was released in May 2002 as the only single and title track from her album Forgive , and the only Top 40 country hit of her career. The song peaked at ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English forgiefan "give, grant, allow; remit (a debt), pardon (an offense)," also "give up" and "give in marriage" (past tense forgeaf , past participle forgifen ); from for- , here probably "completely," + giefan "give" (see give (v.)).\n \nThe sense ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To pardon, to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment. 2 (context intransitive English) To accord forgiveness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forgive \For*give"\, v. t. [imp. Forgave ; p. p. Forgiven ; p. pr. & vb. n. Forgiving ] [OE. forgiven, foryiven, foryeven, AS. forgiefan, forgifan; perh. for- + giefan, gifan to give; cf. D. vergeven, G. vergeben, Icel. fyrirgefa, Sw. f?rgifva, Goth. fragiban ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. stop blaming or grant forgiveness; "I forgave him his infidelity"; "She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday" absolve from payment; "I forgive you your debt" [also: forgiven , forgave ]
Usage examples of forgive.
Their diagnosis, therefore, implies agnosis, or ignorance too great to be forgiven.
It was not so easy to forgive Aunt Alphonsine, for her voice had been as sharp as it could be without being honestly angry, like bad wine instead of good vinegar, and had run indefatigably up the switchbacks on which the voices of Frenchwomen travel eternally.
But Mourtzouphlos was also responsible for everything that had happened to Alypia these past months, and for that the tribune could not forgive him.
Most of the hysterical antipollution Instant Experts so dearly love their personal wheels that they forgive their dear beasts any nasty stink they may produce.
As an arhat, Pasenadi was obliged to forgive the Shakyans for sending him a prostitute for a wife.
Forgive me if I say such a shame must proceed from false modesty, which always attends false honour as its shadow.
The Bajoran people may not be as ready to forgive and forget as Aur would like to believe.
Do it, de Beaujolais, and I will die forgiving you and repenting my sins.
He had not yet forgiven her for the fact that she was so very good at seeming a sweet, harmless, and slightly eccentric lady of a certain age, most concerned with blackfly on roses and the current state of the village church restoration appeal.
In fact, he was not quite forgiven for his escapade with Miss Carnegie, or for that other involuntary excursion with Donna Clotilde La Touche, till such time as he had acquired fortune from a venture on the seas, and was able to take Mrs.
Thirty years before, Casanova would doubtless have made love to the girl and all would have been forgiven.
King Chaac and Monja were forgiven, and commended as well, for their course of action.
On rather rare occasions she urged severity where Chips was inclined to be forgiving.
He had crushed the German labour movement, and for that the property-owning classes were willing to forgive him almost anything.
She would not have forgiven him for his behaviour at the Coa bridge, would she.