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forgiveness
noun as in pardon; end of blame
Strongest matches
absolution, amnesty, clemency, compassion, dispensation, grace, mercy, remission, reprieve, vindication
Strong matches
acquittal, charity, condonation, exculpation, exoneration, extenuation, immunity, impunity, indemnity, justification, lenience, lenity, palliation, purgation, quarter, quittance, remittal, respite
Weak match
Example Sentences
Executives at the Walt Disney Co.-owned broadcaster said that the post crossed a line, rejecting Barr’s apology and pleas for forgiveness.
Latif has so many thoughts about retribution and forgiveness that I’m unconvinced that her movie needed ghosts, too.
Loyalty, vengeance and forgiveness are recurring themes — those, and plenty of guilt, as one would expect of a story featuring a man who spent eight years as a Catholic priest before joining the FBI.
Like so much of her career, Deen’s plea for forgiveness was outsized and totally singular, so much so that it became fodder to convey the brief intensity of an otherwise banal annoyance.
In among the criminal antics and police work is a lot of talk about life and death and God, guilt and forgiveness.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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