| 单词 |
forgivable |
| 释义 |
forgivable, a.|fəˈgɪvəb(ə)l|
Also forgiveable.
[f. forgive v. + -able.]
That may be forgiven, pardonable, excusable.
1550Latimer Last Serm. bef. Edw. VI (1562) 123 b, An vnexcusable sin; yet to him that will truly repent, it is forgeueable. 1611Cotgr., Pardonnable..forgiueable. 1821Coleridge Lett. Convers., etc. II. xxiii. 39 A neglect of this kind may be forgiveable, but it is utterly inexcusable. 1872M. Collins Pr. Clarice I. ix. 139 To know one's own dulness ought to make it forgiveable.
Hence forˈgivableness, the quality of being forgivable; forˈgivably adv., in a manner that is excusable or deserves forgiveness.
1898Expositor Aug. 105 When general unbelief prevails in the forgivableness of transgression, it is a truth worth proclaiming. 1926Spectator 29 May 917/2 The quality which distinguishes his great prototype Pepys, we mean the quality of forgivableness. 1926H. W. Phillips Mod. Foreign Exch. 31 Then came the reaction from the strain and privation of the war, expressing itself quite forgivably in an orgy of spending. 1927Sunday Times 13 Mar. 6/4 [The part] was quite ludicrously, if forgivably, presented by a substitute. 1968Times Lit. Suppl. 2 May 460/3 ‘Voices’..forgivably crowd the earlier note-books. |
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