Forgive: alternatives and connections

To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt…

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To pardon; to forgive.

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To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to ex…

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Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…

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The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.

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To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.

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To hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent.

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To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.

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Cut off; set apart.

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Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…

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To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.

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To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

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To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

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One who forgives.

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One who forgives.

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