To them that list the world's gay shows I leave, And
to great ones such folly do forgive. --Spenser.
2. To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of
(an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon;
-- said in reference to the act forgiven.
And their sins should be forgiven them. --Mark iv.
12.
He forgive injures so readily that he might be said
to invite them. --Macaulay.
3. To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong
committed; to give up claim to requital from or
retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; --
said of the person offending.
Father, forgive them; for they know not what they
do. --Luke xxiii.
34.
I as free forgive you, as I would be fforgiven.
--Shak.
Note: Sometimes both the person and the offense follow as
objects of the verb, sometimes one and sometimes the
other being the indirect object. ``Forgive us our debts
as we forgive our debtors.'' --Matt. vi. 12. ``Be of
good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.'' --Matt. ix. 2.