a. Also forgiveable. [f. FORGIVE v. + -ABLE.] That may be forgiven, pardonable, excusable.

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1550.  Latimer, Last Serm. bef. Edw. VI. (1562), 123 b. An irremissible sinne, an vnexcusable sin; yet to him that will truly repent, it is forgeueable.

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1611.  Cotgr., Pardonnable … forgiueable.

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1821.  Coleridge, Lett. Convers., etc., II. xxiii. 39. A neglect of this kind may be forgiveable, but it is utterly inexcusable.

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1872.  M. Collins, Pr. Clarice, I. ix. 139. To know one’s own dulness ought to make it forgiveable.

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