forgiving
adjective
disposed to forgive; indicating forgiveness.
forgivingness
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a word derived from
forgiving.
Example Sentences
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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 John Charles Ryle
What a superb and all-conquering confidence in Christ's depth of knowledge and forgivingness of knowledge that answer showed!
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI by Alexander Maclaren
But in all this, there was one thing missing, the very thing which is the most important part of all religious matters; this is that there was no love, no kindness, no humility, no forgivingness.
From My Life and My Efforts by Gunther Olesch
Mrs. Burns is said to have been a marvel of long-suffering and forgivingness; but the way she bore those wrongs must have touched her husband's better nature, and pierced him to the quick.
From Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp
Sir Wilton, notwithstanding, admired the forgivingness of his own disposition when he found himself wondering how Tom Wylder would regard an alliance with his old rival.
From There & Back by George MacDonald
