Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of forgiving; pardon.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of forgiving; the act of granting pardon, as for a wrong, offense, or sin; remission of an obligation, debt, or penalty; pardon.
- n. Disposition or willingness to forgive or pardon.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven.
- n. Disposition to pardon; willingness to forgive.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of excusing a mistake or offense
- n. compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive
Etymologies
- From forgiven + -ness. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“While some say they do not feel comfortable using the word forgiveness because it's open to so many messy interpretations, I believe all would embrace the concept, if they knew of Ginn Fourie's favorite definition which states that - "Forgiveness is the principled decision to give up your justifiable right to revenge.”
The Huffington Post: Marina Cantacuzino: The Victims of Terrorism Who Do Not Seek Revenge
“I struggle with the word forgiveness because it still sounds like a 'get out of jail free' card.”
“The word forgiveness hauls me back to when I was a young Catholic girl.”
The Huffington Post: Jennifer Lauck: Forgive the Unforgivable. How?
“While the U.S. has a tradition of forgiveness, politicians seem able to gain forgiveness from the public and come back after just about anything.”
“Maybe they are, but that doesn't strike me as a good reason to sound like some raging partisan fundamentalist who has no concept of the term forgiveness for personal transgressions in the distant past.”
“And you know, his voice is quite representative of a large segment of society, and you know, it's and even the word forgiveness, which is a huge word and it raises a lot of stuff for people.”
“But a single way was still left, that is, if we purchased the same for money from the Roman Pope, bought for ourselves, therefore, the Pope's indulgence, which he called the forgiveness of sins and a certain entrance into eternal life.”
Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
“So she says this is not amnesty, which she defines as forgiveness for wrongdoing.”
“To all the regretful Obama voters ... forgiveness is available 7 x 70.”
“As people of faith, forgiveness is what we are called to do; for our own good!”
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Postscripture ✞
Terms associated with the Christianity, The Bible, etc. I have a related, but more narrow list called Imbible Code.
A related list is Words Associated With Jesus.apostole, pharaoh, sodom, babel, sabbath, baptize, cherub, elohim, lapsarian, crucifixion, nephilim, hosanna and 195 more...
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things you may rise above with.
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The Golden Rule
TABLE OF PROPOSED RULES TO LIVE BY
The Golden Rule Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The Silver Rule Do not do unto others what you would not have them do un...ethics, reciprocity, silver rule, karma, tit for tat, newton's third law, virtue, temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, humanity and 44 more...
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MEC3 Lesson 138
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fubar, goofball, family, lilith, public libraries, rss, library, books, knowledge, children, culture, faith and 19 more...
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