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forgiveness|fəˈgɪvnɪs|
Forms: 1 forᵹife(n)nys, -ᵹyfe(n)nys, forᵹif(e)nes; for later forms cf. forgive and -ness.
[OE. forᵹifennys, f. forᵹifen, forgiven ppl. a. + -ness. Cf. Du. vergiffenis.]
1. The action of forgiving; pardon of a fault, remission of a debt, etc. † In OE. also: Indulgent permission.
The etymological sense, ‘condition or fact of being forgiven’, is not clearly evidenced even in OE., though in expressions like ‘the forgiveness of sins’ the word may admit of being thus interpreted.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. i. xvi. [xxvii]. (1890) 82 Ðis ic cweðo æfter forgifnesse [secundum indulgentiam] nales æfter bebodo. 971Blickl. Hom. 19 Þonne we..us forgifnessa biddaþ. a1200Moral Ode 298 Nis noþer inne helle ore no forȝiuenesse. 1297R. Glouc. (1724) 58 Þat bid me for ȝefnesse, & to amende hys trespas. 1340Ayenb. 32 Vor non ne may habbe uoryeuenesse: wyþ-oute zoþe ssrifte. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xiii. 59 A man schuld all anely ask him forgifnes wham he trespast to. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxviii. 238 The pope yafe hem..foryeuenes of al hir sinnes that [etc.]. 1584D. Powel Lloyd's Cambria 235 All the brethren desired the father forgiuenes. 1729Butler Serm. Pref. Wks. 1874 II. 21 Forgiveness of injuries is one of the very few moral obligations which has been disputed. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola ii. xxxi, He would have to encounter much that was unpleasant before he could win her forgiveness.
2. Disposition or willingness to forgive.
c1200Ormin 1477, & are & millce & mildherrtleȝȝc & rihht forrȝifenesse. 1535Coverdale Dan. ix. 9 Vnto the..pertayneth mercy and forgeuenesse. 1678Sprat Serm. (1710) 99 Meekness, Forgiveness, Bounty and Magnanimity.
b. in pl. rare. (A Hebraism.)
1611Bible Dan. ix. 9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiuenesses. |