noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
beg...forgiveness
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She fought back the sudden urge to run to him and beg his forgiveness.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
debt
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It is a land of immense potential, but it could easily fall to pieces. Debt forgiveness would be a start.
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The infamously debased tabloid press loved it, and ended up giving unprecedented coverage to the issue of debt forgiveness .
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But it is on the subject of debt forgiveness that Wolfensohn is at his most passionate.
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The campaign for debt forgiveness will not bear fruit for another two or three years.
■ VERB
ask
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He doesn't think anybody has ever asked him for forgiveness either.
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The only way Keenan could have avoided it was by coming to Daley, admitting his sins, and asking forgiveness .
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Kit knelt in front of Ariel and cried; he asked her for forgiveness .
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He blamed me for not submitting to my husband and said that my husband would change because he had asked for forgiveness .
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She acknowledges her faults and is quick to ask forgiveness when she knows she has overstepped the line.
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I am writing this letter in order to humbly ask your forgiveness for the events preceding my internment here.
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Before confessing to a priest, most peasants would ask the earth for forgiveness .
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He was ashamed to be asked for forgiveness , when it was not a matter of that.
beg
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I was too proud to follow him and beg forgiveness .
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C., to beg forgiveness for the way black men had mistreated their women and neglected their families.
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Confess your unworthy behaviour and beg his honour's forgiveness for all your faults.
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Then he humbly begged her forgiveness .
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Could Woodhead admit the affair, beg forgiveness and keep his job?
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At the end of the play, Derikson receives a letter from Frederica, whom he had thought dead, begging forgiveness .
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She fought back the sudden urge to run to him, to fling herself into his arms and beg his forgiveness .
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If the evil characters are not punished per se they admit their guilt and often beg forgiveness .
pray
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It was a terrible sin, she said: which means we've got to pray for forgiveness .
seek
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If you came up here seeking some sort of forgiveness from me you can forget it.
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If you get stuck in submissiveness you will often seek forgiveness and try endlessly to make up for what you have done!
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For it is when we seek forgiveness that we can break the cycle.
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The Tories have much for which they should seek forgiveness .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A baby born out of wedlock was a horrible sin for which there was no forgiveness .
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But this forgiveness , when I felt guilty myself, who was I forgiving?
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Even in the right a man can offend past any forgiveness .
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He doesn't think anybody has ever asked him for forgiveness either.
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If you came up here seeking some sort of forgiveness from me you can forget it.
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O Tess, forgiveness does not apply to the case!
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The cry for forgiveness was also the cry for inward healing and deliverance from the mental and physical effects of sin.