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forgiveness

noun
/fəˈɡɪvnəs/UK/fɚˈɡɪvnəs/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Germanic *fra- Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ- Proto-Germanic *gebaną ▲ Late Latin perdōnōcalq. Proto-Germanic *fragebaną Old English forġiefan Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Old English forġiefnes Middle English forgiveness English forgiveness From Middle English forgiveness, forgifnes, from Old English forġiefnes. By surface analysis, forgive + -ness. Cognate with Dutch vergiffenis.

  1. inherited from forġiefnes
  2. inherited from forgiveness,forgifnes

Definitions

  1. The action of forgiving.

    • 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.
    • It was not a war party, so it surely was men who came to ask for peace and forgiveness.

  2. A readiness to forgive.

    • If thou, Lord, shouldest marke iniquities: O Lord, who shal stand? But there is forgiuenesse with thee: that thou mayest be feared.
    • The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

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Derived

it's better to ask forgiveness than permission, it's easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission, preforgiveness, unforgiveness

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at forgiveness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at forgiveness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at forgiveness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA