forgiveness
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English forgiveness, forgifnes, from Old English forġiefnes, equivalent to forgive + -ness.
Pronunciation Nounforgiveness (uncountable)
- The action of forgiving.
- He begged for forgiveness after being caught stealing from the shop.
- Readiness to forgive.
- 1931, Mahatma Gandhi, Young India:
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- French: pardon
- German: Verzeihung, Vergebung
- Italian: perdono
- Portuguese: perdão
- Russian: проще́ние
- Spanish: perdón
- German: Versöhnlichkeit, Nachsicht
- Russian: снисходи́тельность
- Spanish: misericordia
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