forgiveness
Syllables: for·give·nessUK/fəˈɡɪvnəs//fɚˈɡɪvnəs/
forgiveness noun: the action of forgiving.
Noun
forgiveness (usually uncountable, plural forgivenesses)
- 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.1850, T. S. Arthur, “Happy on a Little”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 89
- Synonyms:
- remission
- 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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 130:3–4
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.1931, Mahatma Gandhi, Young India
- Synonyms:
- mercy
forgiveness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
forgiveness in Hindi
- the action of forgiving
- क्षमा kṣamā, माफ़ी māfī
forgiveness in Tamil
- மன்னிப்பு, கடன் குறைப்பு, மன்னிக்கும் மனநிலை
forgiveness in Marathi
- forgiveness, pardon
- क्षमा kṣamā, माफी māphī
forgiveness in Urdu
- the action of forgiving
- مُعَافی mu'āfī, بَخْشِش baxśiś
More languagesFewer languages
- forgiveness in Bengali
- ক্ষমা khoma, মাফি maphi, মাগফিরাত magfirat
- forgiveness in Malayalam
- ക്ഷമിക്കൽ, ക്ഷമാഗുണം, ക്ഷമ, മാപ്പ്
- forgiveness in Kannada
- ಕ್ಷಮೆ kṣame
- forgiveness in Punjabi
- ਮਾਫ਼ੀ māfī, معافی māfī
- forgiveness in Gujarati
- ક્ષમા kṣamā, બક્ષિશ bakṣiś, માફી māphī
- forgiveness in Odia
- କ୍ଷମା kṣamā, ଯୁତକ jutaka
- forgiveness in Sanskrit
- क्षान्ति kṣānti
- forgiveness in Nepali
- माफ māph
- forgiveness in Pashto
- بخښنه bəx̌ə́na
- forgiveness in Tagalog
- kapatawaran
- forgiveness in Arabic
- مَغْفِرَة maḡfira, غُفْرَان ḡufrān, مُسَامَحَة musāmaḥa, عَفْو ʕafw
- forgiveness in Malay
- maaf
- forgiveness in Thai
- อโหสิกรรม à-hǒo-sì-gam, การให้อภัย gaan-hâi-à-pai
- forgiveness in Vietnamese
- sự tha thứ
- forgiveness in Myanmar
- ခွင့်လွှတ်ခြင်း hkwang.hlwathkrang:
Examples of forgiveness in a sentence
- It was not a war party, so it surely was men who came to ask for peace and forgiveness.1907, Albert Ernest Jenks, Ba-Long-Long, The Igorot Boy, page 108:
- We remember God’s forgiveness of Cain, who killed Abel, and the adulterer King David, who arranged the killing of Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba, his lover.2014, Jimmy Carter, “Full Prisons and Legal Killing”, in A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN...
Synonyms of forgiveness
Forms of forgiveness
| plural | forgivenesses |
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Origin of forgiveness
From Middle English forgiveness, forgifnes, from Old English forġiefnes. By surface analysis, forgive + -ness. Cognate with Dutch vergiffenis.
Words formed from forgiveness
Questions about forgiveness
- What does forgiveness mean?
- Forgiveness means the action of forgiving.
- What is forgiveness in Hindi?
- Forgiveness in Hindi is क्षमा (kṣamā), माफ़ी (māfī). See Forgiveness meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use forgiveness in a sentence?
- It was not a war party, so it surely was men who came to ask for peace and forgiveness.
- What part of speech is forgiveness?
- Forgiveness is a noun.
- How do you pronounce forgiveness?
- Forgiveness is pronounced /fəˈɡɪvnəs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of forgiveness?
- The plural of forgiveness is forgivenesses.
Words near forgiveness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: forgiveness (page history and authors); forgiveness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); क्षमा (Marathi) (page history and authors); forgiveness (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ಕ್ಷಮೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors); معافی (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ક્ષમા (Gujarati) (page history and authors); କ୍ଷମା (Odia) (page history and authors); क्षान्ति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); माफ (Nepali) (page history and authors); بخښنه (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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