The sense of "to give up desire or power to punish" (late Old English) is from use of such a compound as a Germanic loan-translation of Vulgar Latin*perdonare(Old Saxonfargeban, Dutchvergeven, Germanvergeben"to forgive," Gothicfragiban"to grant;" and seepardon(n.)). Related:Forgave;...
The sense of "to give up desire or power to punish" (late Old English) is from use of such a compound as a Germanic loan-translation of Vulgar Latin*perdonare(Old Saxonfargeban, Dutchvergeven, Germanvergeben"to forgive," Gothicfragiban"to grant;" and seepardon(n.)). Related:Forgave;...
17.Etymology.the study of words and word roots.may sound like the kind of thing done by boring librarians in small.dusty rooms. Yet etymologists actually have a uniquely interesting job. They are in many ways just like archaeologists digging up the ph
the mother ofTubal-cainthe smith and his sisterNaamah. This Lamech boasts that if Cain is avenged sevenfold, he would be avenged seventy-sevenfold (Genesis 24). Something precisely opposite is preached byJesuswhen he instructsPeterto forgive his hypothetic offending brother not seven times but ...
Jesus also prayed for forgiveness to the people who crucified him (actually, he prayed God to forgive their ignorance, not their actual deed; Luke 23:34), and it should be remembered that he didn't pray for forgiveness of the people who killed the people who crucified him. And even if,...
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Strictly, pardon expresses the act of an official or a superior, remitting all or the remainder of the punishment that belongs to an offense: as, the queen or the governor pardons a convict before the expiration of his sentence. Forgive refers especially to the feelings; it means that one ...
A defective verb throughout its recorded history; the Old English past tense waseode, a word of uncertain origin but evidently once a different verb (perhaps connected to Gothiciddja); it was replaced 1400s bywent, past tense ofwenden"to direct one's way" (seewend). In northern England...
And the box sits within a much larger complex, but this is not a religious complex (in the common sense of the word) but rather a technological complex. Its manufacturers are technicians (see Exodus 31:1-11), and note that the words "technology", "textile" and "text" al derive from ...
An identical wordpila— but this time short forpigla, taken from the rootpig-, hence the verbpango, meaning to fix or set firmly — means pillar and is synonym of the wordcolumna, from whence comes our English word "column". The related adjectivepilatimmeans "with pillars", and see ou...