FORGIVENESS


Meaning of FORGIVENESS in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

beg...forgiveness

She fought back the sudden urge to run to him and beg his forgiveness.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

debt

It is a land of immense potential, but it could easily fall to pieces. Debt forgiveness would be a start.

The infamously debased tabloid press loved it, and ended up giving unprecedented coverage to the issue of debt forgiveness .

But it is on the subject of debt forgiveness that Wolfensohn is at his most passionate.

The campaign for debt forgiveness will not bear fruit for another two or three years.

■ VERB

ask

He doesn't think anybody has ever asked him for forgiveness either.

The only way Keenan could have avoided it was by coming to Daley, admitting his sins, and asking forgiveness .

Kit knelt in front of Ariel and cried; he asked her for forgiveness .

He blamed me for not submitting to my husband and said that my husband would change because he had asked for forgiveness .

She acknowledges her faults and is quick to ask forgiveness when she knows she has overstepped the line.

I am writing this letter in order to humbly ask your forgiveness for the events preceding my internment here.

Before confessing to a priest, most peasants would ask the earth for forgiveness .

He was ashamed to be asked for forgiveness , when it was not a matter of that.

beg

I was too proud to follow him and beg forgiveness .

C., to beg forgiveness for the way black men had mistreated their women and neglected their families.

Confess your unworthy behaviour and beg his honour's forgiveness for all your faults.

Then he humbly begged her forgiveness .

Could Woodhead admit the affair, beg forgiveness and keep his job?

At the end of the play, Derikson receives a letter from Frederica, whom he had thought dead, begging forgiveness .

She fought back the sudden urge to run to him, to fling herself into his arms and beg his forgiveness .

If the evil characters are not punished per se they admit their guilt and often beg forgiveness .

pray

It was a terrible sin, she said: which means we've got to pray for forgiveness .

seek

If you came up here seeking some sort of forgiveness from me you can forget it.

If you get stuck in submissiveness you will often seek forgiveness and try endlessly to make up for what you have done!

For it is when we seek forgiveness that we can break the cycle.

The Tories have much for which they should seek forgiveness .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A baby born out of wedlock was a horrible sin for which there was no forgiveness .

But this forgiveness , when I felt guilty myself, who was I forgiving?

Even in the right a man can offend past any forgiveness .

He doesn't think anybody has ever asked him for forgiveness either.

If you came up here seeking some sort of forgiveness from me you can forget it.

O Tess, forgiveness does not apply to the case!

The cry for forgiveness was also the cry for inward healing and deliverance from the mental and physical effects of sin.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.