| 单词 | forgiveness |
| 释义 | forgiveness (once / 576 pages) n Compassionate feelings for someone that make it easier to forgive that person for some offense can be called forgiveness. Feelings of forgiveness make it easier to feel empathy toward people who have harmed you. If you give someone a break and forgive some misdeed or mistake, you are practicing the act of forgiveness. If your sister borrows your favorite white sweater without asking, it's easy to offer her forgiveness. If your sister borrows your favorite white sweater without asking and spills a glass of chocolate milk on it, forgiveness may be a little harder to grant. WORD FAMILYforgiveness: forgivenesses+/forgivable: forgivably, unforgivable/forgive: forgave, forgivable, forgiven, forgiver, forgives, forgiving/forgiven: forgiveness/forgiver: forgivers/forgiving: forgivingest, forgivingly, forgivingness, unforgiving/unforgivable: unforgivablest, unforgivably/unforgiving: unforgivingly USAGE EXAMPLESFive relatives offered Mr. Roof a measure of forgiveness at a remarkable bond hearing two days after the shootings. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) Conservative think tanks also suspect that the incoming administration will roll back consumer protections, such as broader debt forgiveness, for people who attended for-profit schools. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) The archbishop said the city's wartime suffering and forgiveness served as an example to the nation. BBC(Dec 31, 2016) 1n the act of excusing a mistake or offense Syn|Hypo|Hyper pardon condonation a pardon by treating the offender as if the offense had not occurred exculpationthe act of freeing from guilt or blame benignity, kindness a kind act 2n compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive Hyper mercifulness, mercy the feeling that motivates compassion |
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