forgive
verb (used with object)
to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
half-forgiven
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a word derived from
forgive.
Example Sentences
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He was apparently so simple, so good-natured, so unaffected and easy to talk to, that she had already half-forgiven him before he was at the drawing-room window.
From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
He was apparently so simple, so good- natured, so unaffected and easy to talk to, that she had already half-forgiven him before he was at the drawing-room window.
From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Among those half-forgiven foes, was Allan Cameron, a younger son of that family of the Camerons which stood next in hereditary dignity to the chief.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Alexander Leighton
You know what the dad always used to say to both of us: ‘A fellow who has done wrong and owns up like a man is half-forgiven at once.’
From Glyn Severn's Schooldays by Charles Pears
