2) forgive. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...anger or resentment against. 3. To absolve from payment of (a debt, for example). To accord forgiveness. Middle English forgiven, from Old English forgiefan. See...

3) Forgive, blest Shade. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...This very celebrated epitaph is in Brading churchyard, Isle of Wight, and is attributed to Mrs. Anne Steele (Theodosia), daughter of a Baptist minister of Bristol,...

4) Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do A prayer that Jesus spoke on the cross, concerning those who put him to death. (See Crucifixion.) 1...

5) To err is human, to forgive divine. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...To err is human, to forgive divine All people commit sins and make mistakes. God forgives them, and people are acting in a godlike (divine) way when they forgive....

6) 79. To Christ. John Donne. Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th c.
...WILT thou forgive that sinn, where I begunn, Which is my sinn, though it were done before? Wilt thou forgive those sinns through which I runn And doe run still, though...

7) 201. A Hymn to God the Father. John Donne. The Oxford Book of English Verse
...WILT Thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before? Wilt Thou forgive that sin through which I run, And do run still, though still...

8) 165. A Hymn to God the Father. John Donne. 1909-14. English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray. The Harvard Classics
...WILT Thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before? Wilt Thou forgive that sin through which I run, And do run still, though still...

9) Act III. Scene VII. Moličre, Jean Baptiste Poquelin. 1909-14. Tartuffe. The Harvard Classics
...ORGON, TARTUFFE Orgon What! So insult a saintly man of God! Tartuffe Heaven, forgive him all the pain he gives me! 1 (To ORGON) Could you but know with what distress...

10) Saxon English. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...and temptation are of Latin origin. The substitution of "debts" and "debtors" (as "forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors") is objectionable. Perhaps "Forgive...