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There is a world of tenderness and forgivingness in the addition made to his first words in verse 4, 'Joseph, your brother.'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander

Tenney stood there, his heart swelling within him at the contrast between the child's forgivingness and her cruelty.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice

It will produce in the man who has it repentance, faith, hope, charity, humility, spirituality, kind temper, self-denial, unselfishness, forgivingness, temperance, truthfulness, brotherly-kindness, patience, forbearance.

From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by Ryle, John Charles

As to what had taken place in the morning, he knew Clare's forgivingness, and despised him for it.

From A Rough Shaking by MacDonald, George

The union of man with God is not secured by making God abstract and vague, nor is his infinite kindness and forgivingness purchased at the expense of his intensity and awfulness.

From History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Menzies, Allan