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Definition of Forgivable
1. Adjective. Easily excused or forgiven. "A venial error"
Definition of Forgivable
1. a. Capable of being forgiven; pardonable; venial.
Definition of Forgivable
1. Adjective. Able to be forgiven; excusable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Forgivable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forgivable
Literary usage of Forgivable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Recent Actors: Being Recollections Critical, And, in Many Instances by Westland Marston (1888)
"... Second— Spectacular and archaeological revivals—Danger of excess in these
directions—Charles Kean in private—His forgivable egoism—His bonhomie, humour, ..."
2. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1914)
"Blasphemy against the Son of Man takes its place, therefore, as one of a class,—the
class of forgivable blasphemies. Wherever it may rank within this class, ..."
3. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1896)
"2 The idea is not: blasphemy against the Son of man comes next to blasphemy
against the Holy Ghost in heinousness, and therefore is barely forgivable. ..."
4. With Open Face: Or, Jesus Mirrored in Matthew, Mark and Luke by Alexander Balmain Bruce (1896)
"1 The idea is not: blasphemy against the Son of man comes next to blasphemy
against the Holy Ghost in heinous- ness, and therefore is barely forgivable. ..."
5. Millennial Dawn by Charles Taze Russell, Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (1899)
"... sin is forgivable through the grace of God in Christ—through faith in and
acceptance of his atonement: and to the proportion that any sin was wilful, ..."
6. The Atonement Between God and Manby Charles Taze Russell by Charles Taze Russell (2000)
"To the proportion of its ignorance and weakness any sin is forgivable through
the grace of God in Christ—through faith in and acceptance of his atonement: ..."
7. A Book of Verse of the Great War by William Reginald Wheeler (1917)
"Then we can walk together, I with you, Or you, or you, along some quiet road,
And talk the foolish, old, forgivable talk, And laugh together; you will turn ..."
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