a. 1225. Ancr. R., 256, note (MS. Titus). Hire forȝeouere.
1388. Wyclif, Rom. iii. 25. Whom God ordeynyde forȝyuer [1382, an helpere; Vulg. propitiationem].
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., III. v. 306. Worthi householders and ful grete forȝeuers of dettis to her tenauntis.
1557. Primer, Godly Prayers, O ij. Not onlye a forgever but also a revenger.
1625. Ussher, Answ. Jesuit, 102. Wee both confesse our sinnes unto God, who is the forgiver of sinnes.
1742. Richardson, Pamela, III. 69. I was thus lifted up to the State of a sovereign Forgiver, and my lordly Master became a Petitioner.
1872. J. G. Murphy, Comm. Lev. xvi. ad fin. The great Forgiver.
