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Definition of Forgiving

Forgiving

  1. of Forgive
  2. Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper.

Forgiving Quotations

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Bill Cosby

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
Lewis B. Smedes

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
Doug Coupland
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Forgiving Translations

forgiving in French is pardonnant
forgiving in German is vergebend, verzeihend
forgiving in Italian is conciliante
forgiving in Spanish is aplacable

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