forgive (v.)
- abolish
- absolve
- acquit
- allow
- amnesty
- cancel
- clear
- condone
- decontaminate
- delete
- discharge
- dismiss
- disregard
- erase
- exculpate
- excuse
- exempt
- exonerate
- forbear
- free
- ignore
- indulge
- justify
- melt
- nullify
- obliterate
- overlook
- pardon
- purge
- relax
- release
- relent
- remit
- reprieve
- shrive
- spare
- thaw
- vindicate
- void
- waive
- whitewash
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Pray you now, forget and forgive.
Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."
Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."
Too late I stayed,—forgive the crime!
Unheeded flew the hours;
How noiseless falls the foot of time
That only treads on flowers.
