Word Finder - forgiven

definition

To pardon; to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment, retribution, or compensation.

example

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.

definition

To accord forgiveness.

You have not forgiven him.

Carmen was right; he had forgiven his mother but not his biological father.

I said that a fallen woman should be forgiven, but I didn't say I could forgive her.

I'm sure God has forgiven their little transgressions and the two of them are contrite for their actions.

Maybe Jerome Shipton has never forgiven both of them or, at the very least, that's how Donnie reads it.

A paper has come from the Tsar!' so they began looking for him," here Karataev's lower jaw trembled, "but God had already forgiven him--he was dead!

She had forgiven Chauncey easily enough.

He has forgiven you.

In a pathetic speech to his children on his deathbed, he bitterly lamented his youthful offence in opposing the prophet, although Mahomet had forgiven him and had frequently affirmed that "there was no Mussulman more sincere and steadfast in the faith than `Amr."

If he be once approved as a true prophet, his words and acts are not to be criticized; for this is the sin that shall not be forgiven.

Only he is saved who on the one hand is forgiven at baptism and so released from the power of Satan, and then goes on to live in obedience to the divine law; and on the other hand receives in baptism the germ of a new spiritual nature and is progressively transformed by feeding upon the body and blood of the divine Christ in the eucharist.

After the death of Peter the Great, Golitsuin became the recognized head of the old Conservative party which had never forgiven Peter for putting away Eudoxia and marrying the plebeian Martha Skavronskaya.

I have forgiven her for what she has done but our relationship is not normal now.

Now the survivors return home and hold a love-feast, in which all quarrels are healed, all trespasses forgiven.

No`aim, who had behaved very treacherously towards him before, but whom he had forgiven.

She said she had forgiven him for those horrible months when he had denied his own child and accused her of infidelity.

She still wasn't sure if they had committed a sin, but if they had, it looked as if god had forgiven them.

All but the king of Landis have forgiven us.

It was blasphemy against the spirit, or the unpardonable sin, a sin so awesomely bad that it can not be forgiven.

Given such sums, key figures within the football industry could be forgiven for thinking that the years of plenty would continue ad infinitum.

You would be forgiven for thinking a fringe play about a World War II bomber crew would have a fairly eclectic take on events.

Manny's crime is not expunged, his guilt is forgiven.

You'd be forgiven for thinking this was all rather fluffy.

They had come to Jesus in order to have their sins forgiven.

We're both sinners forgiven through the death of Jesus.

Youâd be forgiven for thinking itâs a bit gimmicky â the countryâs leading program is led by TV hypnotist Paul McKenna.

Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou Last covered all their sin.

He lets himself down in the last 50 pages but is forgiven on the grounds that the preceding 700 are truly luscious and brilliant.

That does not mean when we accept Jesus as Savior and Lord we are then made perfect, no we are just forgiven.

Without sincere repentance they were not going to be forgiven.

With all of these legal shenanigans, the poor Blackberry user can be forgiven for not knowing which way to turn.

And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.

Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.

Hazel has never forgiven HE for being so ungracious about the quid pro quo that night he tweaked her nose.

The suppression of the Encyclopedie, to which he had been a considerable contributor, and whose conductors were his intimate friends, drew from him a shower of lampoons directed now at "l'infame" (see infra) generally, now at literary victims, such as Le Franc de Pompignan (who had written one piece of verse so much better than anything serious of Voltaire's that he could not be forgiven), or Palissot (who in his play Les Philosophes had boldly gibbeted most of the persons so termed, but had not included Voltaire), now at Freron, an excellent critic and a dangerous writer, who had attacked Voltaire from the conservative side, and at whom the patriarch of Ferney, as he now began to be called, levelled in return the very inferior farce-lampoon of L'Ecossaise, of the first night of which Freron himself did an admirably humorous criticism.

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

If now you married again with the object of bearing children, your sin might be forgiven.

But they can have their sins forgiven while they suffer the just consequences of their crimes.

He has been regularly forgiven by his coaches, by his teachers and by his team-mates, as talented sportsmen so often are.

Most people can be forgiven for thinking that JCT publishes the domestic subcontract forms.

You will be restored, your transgression forgiven, the disgrace undone, and your life quite mended up again.

I would vouch to say that God has never forgiven a sin that has not been confessed.

She 's not forgiven me for my winning streak back in March.

If you are in a 30 percent tax bracket, that means you owe $1,620 in taxes just for this forgiven debt.

However, tinted moisturizers are sheerer regarding the formulation and easily blendable, so any color discrepancies with your natural skin tone are usually easily forgiven.

Could it be fans of the lovely country music trio still have not forgiven them for their 2003 criticism of President Bush?

No, not his 1997 stint as action hero Batman for which, along with his role as carpenter and handyman George Burnett on the 80's series The Facts of Life, he has long since been forgiven (hey, everyone has to start somewhere).

To this day, some of the band members have not forgiven her.

Perkins loans may be forgiven for each year serving as a teacher.

A law school student who graduates, passes the bar and serves as a public defender may find their student loans for law school forgiven.