Example Sentences

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Forgiveness is liberating to the forgiver and the offender.

From Washington Times • Mar. 10, 2020

John Oliver: HBO host, Emmy-winning writer, debt forgiver.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2016

You would hardly recognize the sly tale-teller, the sainted forgiver, or the thoughtful rebel in this grim, determined man.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2015

The “quiet Beatle” — the one who told an interviewer, “I’m even more normal than normal people” — was also the nicest Beatle: the most thoughtful and generous, the salver of wounds, forgiver of sins.

From Time • Oct. 17, 2011

Kind and sensitive Aglovale, the forgiver of the Pellinore feud, was exchanging hearty thumps with the beautiful Gareth.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White