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Definition of Forgives
1. forgive [v] - See also: forgive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forgives
Literary usage of Forgives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Diplomatist's Wife in Many Lands by Hugh Fraser (1910)
"... Anxious Moments—The Battle of Mentana — The "Cromwell of Caprera" Hides in a
Confessional — Pius IX forgives and comforts Fifteen Hundred Prisoners. ..."
2. Lives of Men of Letters and Science, who Flourished in the Time of George III by Baron Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux (1845)
"Ah, happy he who to life's latest hour Of the arts enamour'd, plucks their fruit
and flower ; He braves injustice, snail-pac'd time beguiles, forgives his ..."
3. St. Thomas of Canterbury: His Death and Miracles by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1898)
"St. Thomas forgives a reproachful pilgrim [667] Early in the treatise, Gerard of
Flanders had been mentioned as cured of fistula.1 Now he appears to have ..."
4. History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1876)
"... ANNE forgives HER ENEMIES, AND IS PUT TO DEATH. (MAT 1536.) EVERYTHING was
preparing for the unjust judgment which was to have so cruel a termination. ..."
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