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Definition of Forgivingness
1. Noun. Tendency to be kind and forgiving.
Generic synonyms: Mercifulness, Mercy
Derivative terms: Forgiving, Forgiving, Kind
Definition of Forgivingness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forgivingness
Literary usage of Forgivingness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Songs of the Day and Night: Or, Three Centuries of Original Hymns for Public by Alexander Balloch Grosart (1890)
"forgivingness. " Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who have trespassed
against us."—St Matthew vi. 12. 1. THANKS, O God of Earth and Heaven, ..."
2. The Revelation of God and Man in the Son of God and the Son of Man: Six by John Hamilton Thom (1879)
"And inasmuch as it was pure in its quality, our Lord's forgivingness was under
... The forgivingness of one who tempted at all points both to commit and to ..."
3. On Nature and Grace: A Theological Treatise, Book I, Philosophical Introduction by William George Ward (1860)
"I shall recognize more and more clearly and unmistakably, that there is no baseness
whatever in the spirit of forgivingness, no virtuousness whatever in ..."
4. The Thinker: A Review of World-wide Christian Thought (1895)
"His love was almost Christlike in its forgivingness. \Vhen we think of their
cruelty to the boy of seventeen and to their old father, then: villainy was ..."
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