forgiveness

CEFRB2

/fəˈɡɪvnəs/

noun

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noun
The act of stopping anger toward someone who did wrong.
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noun
Extra detail
A readiness to forgive.

Examples

I asked forgiveness for the mistake I made.
She preached to the congregation about forgiveness.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 3
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 2

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noun

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The action of forgiving.

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She sought forgiveness for her guilty acts.
He begged for forgiveness after being caught stealing from the shop.
At the end of a week, she could bear the suspense no longer, and so went humbly to her old home and sought forgiveness.

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At the end of a week, she could bear the suspense no longer, and so went humbly to her old home and sought forgiveness.
1850, T. S. Arthur, “Happy on a Little”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 89
It was not a war party, so it surely was men who came to ask for peace and forgiveness.
1907, Albert Ernest Jenks, Ba-Long-Long, The Igorot Boy, page 108
But Oh! what anguish can more poignant be Than of the heart which vainly longs to plead Forgiveness from the dead? Shall the dead heed?
1913 January 26, G. E. Reece, “"The Bookman" Prize Competitions § Results of Competitions for December § Forgive!”, in The Bookman, volume XLIII, number 256
Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and misinterpreting Holy Scriptures and numerous examples of mercy. We remember God’s forgiveness of Cain, who killed Abel, and the adulterer King David, who arranged the killing of Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba, his lover.
2014, Jimmy Carter, “Full Prisons and Legal Killing”, in A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39
If the incident in question causes you continued distress and negatively impacts your life, that’s where the f-word — forgiveness — may have a role to play, said psychologist Robert Enright, a pioneer in the field of forgiveness science and professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2023 December 10, Andrea Kane, “5 tips to help you flex your forgiveness muscle”, in CNN

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Origin

noun

From Middle English forgiveness, forgifnes, from Old English forġiefnes. By surface analysis, forgive + -ness. Cognate with Dutch vergiffenis.

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noun

She asked for his blank after accidentally breaking his watch.