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(n)
Forgiveness for an offence.
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(countable, uncountable) An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.
(v)
(transitive) To pardon (someone); to waive any negative feeling towards or desire for punishment or retribution against.
An expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry).
(medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent.
Making amends to restore a damaged relationship; expiation.
(uncountable) The state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.
(adj)
(of a person) Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.
The quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case.
Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
The state of being exempt; immunity.
The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
(religion) Salvation from sin.
The act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid.
(uncountable) Forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate.
The act of renouncing.
The removal of stress or discomfort.
An act or instance of revoking.
(law) The undoing of a contract; repeal.
A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
(law) An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract.
(finance) Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
No longer planned or scheduled.
Removal of registration, especially:
remittance
The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right.
The act of invalidating, or the state of being invalidated
The act of presenting, or something presented.
A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position, particularly:
An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
A reduction in price.
(accounting) The cancellation of an item; the amount cancelled or lost.
The total destruction of something.
The act of sending money to someone.
The act of indulging.
(in combination) Having a certain kind or number of hands.
A rebirth of a soul, in a physical life form, such as a body.
(printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
(religion) The process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell).
supplied with furniture
(chiefly in the plural) Furniture, fittings, and other detachable accessories.
The transfer of energy via radiation.
A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.
A list of people unable to attend a meeting, typically presented as the first item on the agenda.
(transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
(transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
(transitive) To forgive, excuse or overlook (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked).
(obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
The forgiveness of sins, in a general sense.
The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement.
The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime.
(law) A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process.
(countable, uncountable) Charming, pleasing qualities.
The condoning of an offence.
Deep awareness of the suffering of others that people have to the point of them being motivated to relieve such states.
(transitive) To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.
An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing.
The quality of being magnanimous; kindness of nature; generosity.
An act of forgiveness.
(proscribed) forgiveness
The act by which somebody is pardoned.
Act of absolving; absolution.
The act of excusing or of being excused.
The act of making an excuse.
The process or act of removing one's guilt; pardoning.
The act of giving or yielding; submission; concession; allowance.
(US, Canada) The process by which the record of a criminal conviction is erased, destroyed or sealed.
The partial or total forgiveness of debt.
The act of making something free; liberation.
(archaic) The act of remitting; remission.
The act of repaying.
The act by which thanks are given; thanks.
The process where the cells in the body regenerate and repair themselves.
The act of granting or giving
The act of going to or hearing a religious confession.
The mental act by which something is forgotten.
An amount of money or resources that someone is allotted; an allotment.
The condition of being penitent; a feeling of regret or remorse for doing wrong or sinning.
A feeling of regret or remorse for doing wrong or sinning.
The allowance of something not explicitly approved; tolerance, forbearance.
A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.